How to Remove Terabox from Devices and Drives in This PC

After installing and uninstalling TeraBox, the Terabox entry may remain under “Devices and drives” on This PC. It may look like a ghost storage entry, as in the following screenshot.

terabox ghost entry in devices and drives

Or it shows “Double-click to run TeraBox,” but nothing happens when you double-click it.

terabox ghost entry in devices and drives

Cause

This issue is caused by a leftover namespace key, which we’ll see how to remove.

You can prevent this issue by unchecking the “Show TeraBox in My Computer” option before uninstalling it.

terabox settings - show in devices and drives

Remove Terabox from Devices and Drives

To remove the phantom drive caused by an incomplete uninstallation of Terabox, please do the following:

Option 1: Using a REG file

Download run terabox_remove_device.reg (zipped). Click Yes to confirm.

Here are the contents of the above REG file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{679F137C-3162-45da-BE3C-2F9C3D093F64}]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{679F137C-3162-45da-BE3C-2F9C3D093F64}]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\CLSID\{679F137C-3162-45da-BE3C-2F9C3D093F64}]

Option 2: Using admin Command Prompt

Alternatively, you can open an admin Command Prompt and run the following commands to remove TeraBox from Devices and drives.

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{679F137C-3162-45da-BE3C-2F9C3D093F64}" /f
reg delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{679F137C-3162-45da-BE3C-2F9C3D093F64}" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\Classes\CLSID\{679F137C-3162-45da-BE3C-2F9C3D093F64}" /f

If you get the error “ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.” for one of the above commands, ignore it and run the next command.

That should remove the phantom entry from devices and drives.

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Ramesh Srinivasan is passionate about Microsoft technologies and he has been a consecutive ten-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in the Windows Shell/Desktop Experience category, from 2003 to 2012. He loves to troubleshoot and write about Windows. Ramesh founded Winhelponline.com in 2005.

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1 thought on “How to Remove Terabox from Devices and Drives in This PC”

  1. A big thanks to the community out there for helping me out. This terabox bothers me alot and didn’t found any solution but that terminal commands are boon to us. More power and love you guys from Ghaziabad, India.

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