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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.

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