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How to hide drive-letters from the Send To menu in Windows Vista
Summary
In article Hide drives from the Send To menu in Windows XP, we saw how to hide drive-letters from the Send To menu and in Explorer. This article describes how to accomplish the same under Windows Vista.
Hide removable drives from Send To
By enabling the NoDrivesInSendToMenu policy, you can hide drive-letters from the Send To menu in Windows Vista without actually hiding the drives in Windows Explorer environment. As indicated in this article, NoDrivesInSendToMenu is not applicable for Windows XP systems.
Manual registry edit
- Click Start, type regedit.exe and press ENTER
- Navigate to the following location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer
If the above branch does not exist by default, you'll need to create it.
- Create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named NoDrivesInSendToMenu
- Double-click NoDrivesInSendToMenu and set its value data to 1
- Exit Registry Editor.
Screenshots
Fig 1: Drive-letters displayed in the Send To menu
Fig 2: Drive-letters hidden in the Send To menu