Hide network drive

I have a network drive mapped and I want to hide it, is it possible?

 Hide any local, external or network drive in Explorer

Open Registry Editor, browse to following key:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Right click the right pane, select New > DWORD, name the new DWORD as NoDrives.

Double click NoDrives to edit it. By default it is expecting a hexadecimal value, change it to decimal. Add value for drive you want to hide in Explorer according to following table:

DRIVE	DECIMAL VALUE
A	1
B	2
C	4
D	8
E	16
F	32
G	64
H	128
I	256
J	512
K	1024
L	2048
M	4096
N	8192
O	16384
P	32768
Q	65536
R	131072
S	262144
T	524288
U	1048576
V	2097152
W	4194304
X	8388608
Y	16777216
Z	33554432

In screenshot, I am hiding a mapped network drive X: (value: 8388608):



To hide multiple drives, add values together. For instance, to hide drives D (8), M (4096) and P (32768), you would need to set NoDrives decimal value to 36872 (8 + 4096 +32768).

To hide all drives, you'd need to add all 26 values together and use that value (67108863).

Hidden drives can be accessed in Explorer by typing the drive letter followed by a colon in Explorer address fiels and pressing Enter.

Kari


EDIT:

I was thinking to make a tutorial about this, but of course @Brink had already done it
Tutorial: Hide Specific Drives in Windows | Tutorials

rdwray said:

Starting to look like it can't be done with a mapped drive.

It works perfectly, exactly as designed.

The video I made just now demonstrates it on a virtual machine, but it works exactly the same way on physical machines:



Kari

rdwray said:

Don't have an answer, it does not work for me in Windows 10, 17763.437.

Works just fine for me with the 1809 update.

FWIW.