

Also, these drives do not appear in the Open dialog box of any programs. These settings remove the icons representing the selected hard disks from My Computer, Windows Explorer, and My Network Places. Click the appropriate option in the drop-down box.Click to select the Hide these specified drives in My Computer check box.Click Hide these specified drives in My Computer.Open the following sections: User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, and Windows Explorer.You can also add GPOs for other domain partitions (specifically, Organizational Units). To do this, click Browse when you are prompted to select a Group Policy Object (GPO). Add the Group Policy snap-in for the default domain policy.On the Console menu, click Add/Remove Snap-in. Start the Microsoft Management Console.To make changes to this policy for one of the seven default values: The Adm folder and its contents are not populated until the default domain policy is loaded for the first time. The contents of these folders are replicated throughout a domain by the File Replication service (FRS). %SystemRoot%\Sysvol\Sysvol\\Policies\\Adm\System.adm The default location of the System.adm file for a default domain policy is:

The reason is that if you apply changes to the system.adm file, these changes might get overwritten if Microsoft releases a new version of the system.adm file in a Service Pack. Microsoft does not recommend to change the System.adm file, but instead to create a new. You can add other restrictions by modifying the System.adm file for the default domain policy or any custom Group Policy Object (GPO). There are seven default options for restricting access to drives. However, it may be necessary to hide only certain drive, but retain access to others. With Group Policy Objects in Windows, there is a "Hide these specified drives in My Computer" option that lets you hide specific drives. This article provides some information about using Group Policy Objects to hide specified drives.Īpplies to: Windows 10 - all editions Original KB number: 231289 Summary Using Group Policy Objects to hide specified drives
