Hide My Computer Icon

My Computer is very useful for all of Windows users. With My Computer, you can explore entire of sides from your Windows system. Sure, this makes a lot benefits for us but on other hand, this can be a disaster if it handles by wrong hands. To make it safer, just hide My Computer shortcut on Desktop and in Start Menu.

To hide it, we’ll play again with registry.
1. To modify registry value, open Registry Editor by click Start –> Run, enter regedit in box and press Enter.

2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_MACHINE / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Policies / NonEnum path.

3. In NonEnum key, create a new DWORD value. To create it, right click on empty space on right panel, and then choose New -> DWORD value menu.

4. Replace the original value to {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} and then press Enter to save it.

5. By default, it has value 0. To make this trick works, change it to 1 by double click the {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} value, and replace the 0 to 1 in box and then press Enter or click OK button.

6. Close Registry Editor and restart your computer.

7. Now, your My Computer has been disappeared from Start Menu and Desktop.

To show My Computer back, just delete {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} value or change its value to 0.

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