Registry Tweak – Enabling/Disabling My Computer

By Luqmaan

Here is a registry tweak which you could use to disable My Computer. First of all read this post on how to backup the registry, it is always important to backup the registry before modifying it just in case.

1. Open the registry – Open Start > Run > Type ‘regedit’.

2. Locate the location in the registry to place the data – In the left Tree-view window navigate to “HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesNonEnum” if any of the keys (directories) are missing create it. If they are all there skip to step 4

3. Create a key – if for example “Policies” is missing, right click “current version” and select new key.

4. Right-click “NonEnum” and select new DWORD value.

5. Rename the value to “{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}”.

6. Double click the value and type 1 for the value data.

7. Close the registry, now test it.(you might have to restart the computer first)

8. Open Start and check if ‘My Computer’ still exists on the top right of the Start Menu., if the ‘My Computer” item has been removed the tweak was successful.

9. To enable the My Computer again, open the registry and delete the value or replace the value data with “0”.

This tweak is particularly useful if you wish to limit user rights (by restricting usage of My Computer)

Alternatively you can use Disk Heal and perform this same tweak by just ticking off a single check box.

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7 Comments so far

Bill May 7, 2008 7:10 pm

You have some great Windows tweaks in this section. I was curious why any one would want to Disable My Computer, until I got to the end. Now I see that would come in handy.

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  luq reply on May 7th, 2008 8:36 pm:
thanks for the comment..you might want to check back once in a while as i frequently add newer tweaks.

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  Bill reply on May 7th, 2008 9:23 pm:
Oh yea. I have your blog bookmarked. I plan on posting some of the tweaks on my software forum, with a link of course.

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  luq reply on May 7th, 2008 9:44 pm:
would appreciate that, i could do with a few backlinks!

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pointblank February 5, 2009 8:07 am

Yes I want to try it too to restrict user’s privilege on my PC. My cousins wont love it but I have to do it to lessen maintenance jobs later.

pointblank’s last blog post..ADOBERD9.0.EXE – Malicious Software: Update1

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gdirectory March 11, 2009 7:07 am

I can disable it for my little brother when i don’t want him on my computer, and i m sure he don’t know another way to browse through my files.

Thanks

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cue directory March 11, 2009 7:09 am

Nice Tweak, your site bookmarket and stumbled.

Thanks

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