How to Add or Remove General, Tools, and Hardware tabs in Drive Properties in Windows 10


You can right click or press and hold on a drive in Windows, and click/tap on Properties to see more details about the drive's properties.

The General tab in the properties page window of drives allow you to see the type, file system, used space, free space, capacity, run Disk Cleanup, compress, and contents indexed for the drive.

The Tools tab in the properties page window of drives allow you to run error checking and optimize and defragment for the drive.

The Hardware tab in the properties page window of drives allow you to see device properties for the drive.

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the General, Tools, and Hardware tab on the Properties page of drives for all users in Windows 10.

You must be signed in as an administrator to add or remove the Hardware tab.

This will not affect seeing device properties of drives from within Device Manager (devmgmt.msc).

EXAMPLE: General, Tools, and Hardware tabs on Properties page of drives




Here's How:

1 Do step 2 (add) or step 3 (remove) below for what you would like to do.

2 To Add General, Tools, and Hardware tabs to Drive Properties Page for All Users

This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Add_General-Tools_Hardware_tabs_to_drive_Properties_page.reg

Download

(Contents of .reg file for reference)

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\{5F5295E0-429F-1069-A2E2-08002B30309D}]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoHardwareTab"=-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoHardwareTab"=-

3 To Remove General, Tools, and Hardware tabs from Drive Properties Page for All Users

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Remove_General-Tools_Hardware_tabs_from_drive_Properties_page.reg

Download

(Contents of .reg file for reference)

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\{5F5295E0-429F-1069-A2E2-08002B30309D}]

4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn