> How to Hide Hard Drives in Windows

Hiding your HDD (hard drives) in Windows Explorer is a simple trick just for fun and for your knowledge. You can even use it to play a harmless trick on your friends. It's fun to show-off a bit :)

To disable the display of all your local or networked drives from My Computer or Windows Explorer, just follow these simple steps

1) Go to Start > Run. Type regedit. and
hit Enter. Now go to or find the key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
(Here I'm already assuming that you are quite familiar with your windows registry. If you are totally new to computers, pls do not proceed :)

2) Once you have reached the desired key. Right-click on the Right side pane.

3) Click on "New > DWORD value"

4) Rename it to "NoDrives" (Note: It's case sensitive).

5) Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal).

6) Restart your computer. Now when you click on My Computer, you will not see any Drives there....(all gone :)

7) To enable the display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD value that you've created. Restart your computer and there you go. Your drives are back again.