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Friday, September 28, 2007

Removing the hand icon displayed below shared drives

Whenever we share any of our harddisk drives a hand icon appears below that drive. Surely, a nice way to show that it is shared, but when all your drives are shared, the same hand starts annoying us. In order to get rid of this hand we have to perform a registry tweak.
Open regedit ( Go to start>Run and type in regedit) .
  • Browse to the location HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT>Network>Sharing Handler.
  • Open the default icon by double clicking it.
  • In the value data textbox the default value is ntshrui.dll.
  • Erase this value to leave the space blank.
  • Restart your PC and see the change in the icon of your shared drives.