Otak Atik [dot] Com » My Computer http://www.otakatik.com Empowering Computer Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:42:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Open My Computer In Expore Mode http://www.otakatik.com/open-my-computer-in-expore-mode/ http://www.otakatik.com/open-my-computer-in-expore-mode/#comments Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:16:26 +0000 Edi Kwie http://www.otakatik.com/?p=158 In standard way, if you open My Computer, you’ll get the standard sidebar inside it. And I don’t like it because I want to explore entire my computer drives within it. My wish is the side bar is explorer sidebar that contain folders and drives three. Actually, you can do that with click Folder button on toolbar but I don’t want to click it every time I open My Computer. If you have the same problem with me you can try this solution.

If you open My Computer you will get window like this picture:
My Computer's standard view
So, if you like to open My Computer with explore mode rather than standard view, follow these steps:

  1. In My Computer window, click Tools -> Folder Options menu.
    Folder Options
  2. Click File Types tab and find Extensions: [NONE] and File Types: Folder then click it, if it has clicked, click Advanced button.
    File Types NONE
  3. Click Actions: explore and then click Set Default button, click OK button.
    Edit the properties
  4. Close Folder Options window.
  5. Close My Computer window and reopen it and you’ll get explore mode for My Computer.
    Result

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]]> http://www.otakatik.com/open-my-computer-in-expore-mode/feed/ 0 Hide My Computer’s Properties menu http://www.otakatik.com/hide-my-computer%e2%80%99s-properties-menu/ http://www.otakatik.com/hide-my-computer%e2%80%99s-properties-menu/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:35:38 +0000 Edi Kwie http://www.otakatik.com/?p=129 If your right click My Computer icon on desktop or Start menu, a usual pop menu will appear. And if you click Properties menu then, System Properties window will shown. And you can change lot computer settings inside there. And this is a danger ‘window’ for a wrong user. The naughty user may destroy computer through it.

So, to make it safer, you can remove Properties menu to block a way to it.
Try to right click My Computer inside Start menu, you can see Properties menu in there.
Properties menu

To remove it, do these steps:

  1. Open Registry Editor by click Start -> Run menu, enter regedit in box and then press Enter key.
    Registry path
  2. Navigate to this registry path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ policies.
    Registry path
  3. Right click on policies key, click New – > Key menu to create a new key.
    New Key menu
  4. Replace the original value to Explorer name. But if you’ve seen Explorer key in there, you don’t need to create this key.
    Explorer key
  5. Right empty space on right panel, and then click New –> DWORD Value menu.
    New DWORD key
  6. Replace the original value with NoPropertiesMyComputer.
    No Properties menu
  7. Modify its value to 1 by double click NoPropertiesMyComptuer value, enter value 1 in box and then click OK button.
    Change its value data
  8. And you’ll see this value and its value data like this.
    Final appearance
  9. Close Registry Editor and restart the computer.
  10. Now your Properties menu has gone.
    Final appearance

To show the Properties menu, give it value: 0 or remove NoPropertiesMyComputer menu.

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