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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.
NOTE: To automate the following, you may use the nodrivesinsendto.reg file available for download from the Attachments section below. Download and save the file to Desktop, right-click on the file and choose Merge. There is an undo file provided also.
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
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1 Response to "How to hide drive-letters from the Send To menu in Windows Vista" 
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said this on 21 Apr 2009 4:24:11 AM PST
Hi,
I wonder, because of the reason why you'd want to hide the drive-letters from the SendTo menu is the slowness of that menu, would it be possible to exclude only those drive-letters from the SendTo menu
that are mappings and at the same time are not connected to whatever they are supposed to be connected with?
Maybe I have to explain a little bit.
When you open the Windows Explorer, Windows is trying to connect with all the mappings you have made. On a laptop it is perfectly possible that you are not connected to a LAN with a share to which you made a mapping. Windows isn't informed obviously that a particular mapping does not connect momentarily, so it is trying to connect anyway. After a while it knows that trying further has no use anymore and it stops trying. (So there is a time-out involved in there somewhere.) For the Windows Explorer that might be OK, for a SendTo menu it is annoying.
So the question becomes: is it possible to set the above mentioned time-out to a few milliseconds above zero when it relates to the SendTo menu, and, as a consequence, leave the mappings that do not connect out of the SendTo menu altogether?
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