hide empty drives

Well... unfortunately, it didn't work for me

You can turn those unused drives off by disabling them in Windows Device Manager. Click Computer Management -> Device Manager. Then under Disk drives, right click on the drives you no longer wish to see in Explorer and select "Disable". The will remove them from the Explorer window. You can always go back and re-enable them later.

Here I have 4 USB drive slots for various card readers provided by HP that I never use so I disabled them.

Brink said:

Hello madmax, :)

To hide empty removable drives, see if the tutorial below may work best instead.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...er-folder.html

That is where I got your reg file from.
I used option 2, which the same thing as doing as option 3.

It didn't hide my removable drives.

Scott10 said:

You can turn those unused drives off by disabling them in Windows Device Manager. Click Computer Management -> Device Manager. Then under Disk drives, right click on the drives you no longer wish to see in Explorer and select "Disable". The will remove them from the Explorer window. You can always go back and re-enable them later.

Here I have 4 USB drive slots for various card readers provided by HP that I never use so I disabled them.
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Thanks,

until Brink responds to this thread with any other alternative solutions,
this might be the best or only option..

No idea why this happens... and for me it's only on my main desktop, my laptop was also upgraded to Win 10 and shows no problems, and a new desktop with Win 10 by default I got for my folks has no issues either.

Guess I'll learn to live with it. thanks!

myuption said:

No idea why this happens... and for me it's only on my main desktop, my laptop was also upgraded to Win 10 and shows no problems, and a new desktop with Win 10 by default I got for my folks has no issues either.
Guess I'll learn to live with it. thanks!

Did you find any solution ? I have the same problem. Neither Folder setting nor changing the registry settings hides the drives with no media.

pkss said:

Did you find any solution ? I have the same problem. Neither Folder setting nor changing the registry settings hides the drives with no media.

No... it's the same, only thing left is to try to reinstall Windows 10 and see if it helps, I rebooted another PC a couple weeks ago and it shows no issues like this.

madmax2 said:

I used your reg file
but it does not hide empty drives from card readers
My usb hub has card reader slots which does not currently have any cards or drives in it
how to hide these drives?
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In Win 7 or 10 open the "folder options" (Win 7) or "file Explorer options" (Win 10) and go to the view tab and check under "Hidden folders and files" the option to "don't show hidden files, folders or drives" and it'll get rid of the ghost preview too...this will also hide folders and files too that you've applied this too but is the only way I know of to also hide the memory card reader drives (I have a 7-card reader) and seeing the icons even "hidden" only ghosted them to about 50% opacity. This option will hide them entirely....i this what you meant?

see pic on when to check.....


without that ticked I see this and it drives me nuts....



After hidden the way I said to this is what I see....yay!!!