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by rautelarakesh

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How can I hide some of the icons and mapped drives from my control panel/pc. And how can I clear the history of mapped drive?

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by joseph moore

To hide all Desktop Icons from Explorer, use the following Windows NT / Windows 2000 / Windows XP registry hack :
Open Regedit
Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Name: NoDesktop
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

With this key enabled, in addition, you cannot right click on the desktop to get a context menu. This is a lockdown option

To hide the Control Panel, Printers, and My Computer in Explorer and on the Start Menu, apply the following Windows NT registry hack:
Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Name: NoSetFolders
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

by borginva

Go to www.pcworld.com or download.com and look for the correct TweakUI program that would go to your OS. It will clean out history, hide control panel icons, and many other helpful features. If you are running XP, get the XP version of it from siteshttp://www.TweakXP.com or http://www.xp-erience.org. If you are running 9x/ME/2000, you cna use TweakUI 2000. I have used it on all of the OSes it can be installed on.

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