TweakUI

A

ariana

PC running XP Home

On my own user account, I can make drives visible/invisible, using TweakUI.
When another user logs on, all the drives on my PC are visible and there is
no "Drives" branch shown in TweakUI.


I thought I would start by uninstalling and then installing the latest
TweakUI - just in case!

I ran Regedit and set "24" in the first column of NoDrives as I want to hide
drives D+E.

When I restarted the PC, there was no difference - my account and my
husband's account could not see the D+E drives but the Friends user account
(Limited) could!

When I started up my PC this morning, the "24" had reset itself to "18" in
the registry!

I can't think what else to try. Any ideas, please?
 
R

Ramesh, MS-MVP

TweakUI writes to the "NoDrives" value in the current user registry hive (per-user setting). If you need to apply the setting to other user profiles, you may export the following branch to a REG file. Then edit the REG file using Notepad, and delete all other values except "NoDrives"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


PC running XP Home

On my own user account, I can make drives visible/invisible, using TweakUI.
When another user logs on, all the drives on my PC are visible and there is
no "Drives" branch shown in TweakUI.


I thought I would start by uninstalling and then installing the latest
TweakUI - just in case!

I ran Regedit and set "24" in the first column of NoDrives as I want to hide
drives D+E.

When I restarted the PC, there was no difference - my account and my
husband's account could not see the D+E drives but the Friends user account
(Limited) could!

When I started up my PC this morning, the "24" had reset itself to "18" in
the registry!

I can't think what else to try. Any ideas, please?
 
A

ariana

Thanks for your reply, Ramesh

I am not too familiar with the Registry but in my own user profile, I have
the NoDrives set to 24 00 00 00 as I want to hide drives D + E.
I think that is correct although for some reason, it had changed to 18 00 00
00 overnight! The drives are hidden.

In my husband's user profile, it is set the same and the drives are hidden.

In the Friends profile, there is no NoDrives and I can see the D+E drives. I
understand that you mean that I should add a NoDrives to this user account.
It already has
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
but that holds just an NoDriveTypeAutoRun value.

I am a bit lost about exporting to a REG file so would appreciate a
step-by-step instruction of what I should do.

TIA.






TweakUI writes to the "NoDrives" value in the current user registry hive
(per-user setting). If you need to apply the setting to other user profiles,
you may export the following branch to a REG file. Then edit the REG file
using Notepad, and delete all other values except "NoDrives"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


PC running XP Home

On my own user account, I can make drives visible/invisible, using TweakUI.
When another user logs on, all the drives on my PC are visible and there is
no "Drives" branch shown in TweakUI.


I thought I would start by uninstalling and then installing the latest
TweakUI - just in case!

I ran Regedit and set "24" in the first column of NoDrives as I want to hide
drives D+E.

When I restarted the PC, there was no difference - my account and my
husband's account could not see the D+E drives but the Friends user account
(Limited) could!

When I started up my PC this morning, the "24" had reset itself to "18" in
the registry!

I can't think what else to try. Any ideas, please?
 
A

ariana

Hello again, Ramesh. I have been trying what you suggested and now have a
REG file with includes the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDrives"=hex:24,00,00,00

I am not sure what to do now - do I open the Friends profile and import/copy
this?

Thanks
 
R

Ramesh, MS-MVP

Yes. Simply double-click the REG file from the other user account.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hello again, Ramesh. I have been trying what you suggested and now have a
REG file with includes the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDrives"=hex:24,00,00,00

I am not sure what to do now - do I open the Friends profile and import/copy
this?

Thanks



ariana said:
Thanks for your reply, Ramesh

I am not too familiar with the Registry but in my own user profile, I have
the NoDrives set to 24 00 00 00 as I want to hide drives D + E.
I think that is correct although for some reason, it had changed to 18 00
00 00 overnight! The drives are hidden.

In my husband's user profile, it is set the same and the drives are
hidden.

In the Friends profile, there is no NoDrives and I can see the D+E drives.
I understand that you mean that I should add a NoDrives to this user
account. It already has
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
but that holds just an NoDriveTypeAutoRun value.

I am a bit lost about exporting to a REG file so would appreciate a
step-by-step instruction of what I should do.

TIA.






TweakUI writes to the "NoDrives" value in the current user registry hive
(per-user setting). If you need to apply the setting to other user
profiles, you may export the following branch to a REG file. Then edit the
REG file using Notepad, and delete all other values except "NoDrives"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


PC running XP Home

On my own user account, I can make drives visible/invisible, using
TweakUI.
When another user logs on, all the drives on my PC are visible and there
is
no "Drives" branch shown in TweakUI.


I thought I would start by uninstalling and then installing the latest
TweakUI - just in case!

I ran Regedit and set "24" in the first column of NoDrives as I want to
hide
drives D+E.

When I restarted the PC, there was no difference - my account and my
husband's account could not see the D+E drives but the Friends user
account
(Limited) could!

When I started up my PC this morning, the "24" had reset itself to "18" in
the registry!

I can't think what else to try. Any ideas, please?
Click to expand...
 
A

ariana

I must be missing something. I saved the REG file to my C: drive and logged
off.
I then opened my Friends (Limited) profile and double-clicked on the REG
file.
I got the message:
"Cannot import C:\Explorer.reg. Not all data was successfully written to the
registry. Some keys are open by the system or other processes."



Yes. Simply double-click the REG file from the other user account.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hello again, Ramesh. I have been trying what you suggested and now have a
REG file with includes the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDrives"=hex:24,00,00,00

I am not sure what to do now - do I open the Friends profile and import/copy
this?

Thanks



ariana said:
Thanks for your reply, Ramesh

I am not too familiar with the Registry but in my own user profile, I have
the NoDrives set to 24 00 00 00 as I want to hide drives D + E.
I think that is correct although for some reason, it had changed to 18 00
00 00 overnight! The drives are hidden.

In my husband's user profile, it is set the same and the drives are
hidden.

In the Friends profile, there is no NoDrives and I can see the D+E drives.
I understand that you mean that I should add a NoDrives to this user
account. It already has
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
but that holds just an NoDriveTypeAutoRun value.

I am a bit lost about exporting to a REG file so would appreciate a
step-by-step instruction of what I should do.

TIA.






TweakUI writes to the "NoDrives" value in the current user registry hive
(per-user setting). If you need to apply the setting to other user
profiles, you may export the following branch to a REG file. Then edit the
REG file using Notepad, and delete all other values except "NoDrives"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


PC running XP Home

On my own user account, I can make drives visible/invisible, using
TweakUI.
When another user logs on, all the drives on my PC are visible and there
is
no "Drives" branch shown in TweakUI.


I thought I would start by uninstalling and then installing the latest
TweakUI - just in case!

I ran Regedit and set "24" in the first column of NoDrives as I want to
hide
drives D+E.

When I restarted the PC, there was no difference - my account and my
husband's account could not see the D+E drives but the Friends user
account
(Limited) could!

When I started up my PC this morning, the "24" had reset itself to "18" in
the registry!

I can't think what else to try. Any ideas, please?
Click to expand...
 
A

ariana

Can anyone help, please?

ariana said:
I must be missing something. I saved the REG file to my C: drive and logged
off.
I then opened my Friends (Limited) profile and double-clicked on the REG
file.
I got the message:
"Cannot import C:\Explorer.reg. Not all data was successfully written to
the registry. Some keys are open by the system or other processes."



Yes. Simply double-click the REG file from the other user account.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hello again, Ramesh. I have been trying what you suggested and now have a
REG file with includes the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDrives"=hex:24,00,00,00

I am not sure what to do now - do I open the Friends profile and
import/copy
this?

Thanks



ariana said:
Thanks for your reply, Ramesh

I am not too familiar with the Registry but in my own user profile, I
have
the NoDrives set to 24 00 00 00 as I want to hide drives D + E.
I think that is correct although for some reason, it had changed to 18 00
00 00 overnight! The drives are hidden.

In my husband's user profile, it is set the same and the drives are
hidden.

In the Friends profile, there is no NoDrives and I can see the D+E
drives.
I understand that you mean that I should add a NoDrives to this user
account. It already has
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
but that holds just an NoDriveTypeAutoRun value.

I am a bit lost about exporting to a REG file so would appreciate a
step-by-step instruction of what I should do.

TIA.






TweakUI writes to the "NoDrives" value in the current user registry hive
(per-user setting). If you need to apply the setting to other user
profiles, you may export the following branch to a REG file. Then edit
the
REG file using Notepad, and delete all other values except "NoDrives"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


PC running XP Home

On my own user account, I can make drives visible/invisible, using
TweakUI.
When another user logs on, all the drives on my PC are visible and there
is
no "Drives" branch shown in TweakUI.


I thought I would start by uninstalling and then installing the latest
TweakUI - just in case!

I ran Regedit and set "24" in the first column of NoDrives as I want to
hide
drives D+E.

When I restarted the PC, there was no difference - my account and my
husband's account could not see the D+E drives but the Friends user
account
(Limited) could!

When I started up my PC this morning, the "24" had reset itself to "18"
in
the registry!

I can't think what else to try. Any ideas, please?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
R

Ramesh, MS-MVP

You may use this method to write to the registry of another user.

Editing the Registry for "other" Users
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_adv_reg_editing.htm

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


I must be missing something. I saved the REG file to my C: drive and logged
off.
I then opened my Friends (Limited) profile and double-clicked on the REG
file.
I got the message:
"Cannot import C:\Explorer.reg. Not all data was successfully written to the
registry. Some keys are open by the system or other processes."



Yes. Simply double-click the REG file from the other user account.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hello again, Ramesh. I have been trying what you suggested and now have a
REG file with includes the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDrives"=hex:24,00,00,00

I am not sure what to do now - do I open the Friends profile and import/copy
this?

Thanks



ariana said:
Thanks for your reply, Ramesh

I am not too familiar with the Registry but in my own user profile, I have
the NoDrives set to 24 00 00 00 as I want to hide drives D + E.
I think that is correct although for some reason, it had changed to 18 00
00 00 overnight! The drives are hidden.

In my husband's user profile, it is set the same and the drives are
hidden.

In the Friends profile, there is no NoDrives and I can see the D+E drives.
I understand that you mean that I should add a NoDrives to this user
account. It already has
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
but that holds just an NoDriveTypeAutoRun value.

I am a bit lost about exporting to a REG file so would appreciate a
step-by-step instruction of what I should do.

TIA.






TweakUI writes to the "NoDrives" value in the current user registry hive
(per-user setting). If you need to apply the setting to other user
profiles, you may export the following branch to a REG file. Then edit the
REG file using Notepad, and delete all other values except "NoDrives"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


PC running XP Home

On my own user account, I can make drives visible/invisible, using
TweakUI.
When another user logs on, all the drives on my PC are visible and there
is
no "Drives" branch shown in TweakUI.


I thought I would start by uninstalling and then installing the latest
TweakUI - just in case!

I ran Regedit and set "24" in the first column of NoDrives as I want to
hide
drives D+E.

When I restarted the PC, there was no difference - my account and my
husband's account could not see the D+E drives but the Friends user
account
(Limited) could!

When I started up my PC this morning, the "24" had reset itself to "18" in
the registry!

I can't think what else to try. Any ideas, please?
Click to expand...
 
A

ariana

Thanks once again, Ramesh.

I THINK I have found the answer. I deleted the Friends profile, created
another with Admin rights, logged in and out and then changed it to Limited.

No idea WHY it worked but it appears to have done so!


You may use this method to write to the registry of another user.

Editing the Registry for "other" Users
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_adv_reg_editing.htm

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


I must be missing something. I saved the REG file to my C: drive and logged
off.
I then opened my Friends (Limited) profile and double-clicked on the REG
file.
I got the message:
"Cannot import C:\Explorer.reg. Not all data was successfully written to the
registry. Some keys are open by the system or other processes."



Yes. Simply double-click the REG file from the other user account.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hello again, Ramesh. I have been trying what you suggested and now have a
REG file with includes the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDrives"=hex:24,00,00,00

I am not sure what to do now - do I open the Friends profile and import/copy
this?

Thanks



ariana said:
Thanks for your reply, Ramesh

I am not too familiar with the Registry but in my own user profile, I have
the NoDrives set to 24 00 00 00 as I want to hide drives D + E.
I think that is correct although for some reason, it had changed to 18 00
00 00 overnight! The drives are hidden.

In my husband's user profile, it is set the same and the drives are
hidden.

In the Friends profile, there is no NoDrives and I can see the D+E drives.
I understand that you mean that I should add a NoDrives to this user
account. It already has
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
but that holds just an NoDriveTypeAutoRun value.

I am a bit lost about exporting to a REG file so would appreciate a
step-by-step instruction of what I should do.

TIA.






TweakUI writes to the "NoDrives" value in the current user registry hive
(per-user setting). If you need to apply the setting to other user
profiles, you may export the following branch to a REG file. Then edit the
REG file using Notepad, and delete all other values except "NoDrives"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


PC running XP Home

On my own user account, I can make drives visible/invisible, using
TweakUI.
When another user logs on, all the drives on my PC are visible and there
is
no "Drives" branch shown in TweakUI.


I thought I would start by uninstalling and then installing the latest
TweakUI - just in case!

I ran Regedit and set "24" in the first column of NoDrives as I want to
hide
drives D+E.

When I restarted the PC, there was no difference - my account and my
husband's account could not see the D+E drives but the Friends user
account
(Limited) could!

When I started up my PC this morning, the "24" had reset itself to "18" in
the registry!

I can't think what else to try. Any ideas, please?
Click to expand...
 
R

Ramesh, MS-MVP

Might be a registry permissions problem. It appears that limited users can't write to that registry location by default. BTW, loading the hive should have worked also.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Thanks once again, Ramesh.

I THINK I have found the answer. I deleted the Friends profile, created
another with Admin rights, logged in and out and then changed it to Limited.

No idea WHY it worked but it appears to have done so!


You may use this method to write to the registry of another user.

Editing the Registry for "other" Users
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_adv_reg_editing.htm

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


I must be missing something. I saved the REG file to my C: drive and logged
off.
I then opened my Friends (Limited) profile and double-clicked on the REG
file.
I got the message:
"Cannot import C:\Explorer.reg. Not all data was successfully written to the
registry. Some keys are open by the system or other processes."



Yes. Simply double-click the REG file from the other user account.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hello again, Ramesh. I have been trying what you suggested and now have a
REG file with includes the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDrives"=hex:24,00,00,00

I am not sure what to do now - do I open the Friends profile and import/copy
this?

Thanks



ariana said:
Thanks for your reply, Ramesh

I am not too familiar with the Registry but in my own user profile, I have
the NoDrives set to 24 00 00 00 as I want to hide drives D + E.
I think that is correct although for some reason, it had changed to 18 00
00 00 overnight! The drives are hidden.

In my husband's user profile, it is set the same and the drives are
hidden.

In the Friends profile, there is no NoDrives and I can see the D+E drives.
I understand that you mean that I should add a NoDrives to this user
account. It already has
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
but that holds just an NoDriveTypeAutoRun value.

I am a bit lost about exporting to a REG file so would appreciate a
step-by-step instruction of what I should do.

TIA.






TweakUI writes to the "NoDrives" value in the current user registry hive
(per-user setting). If you need to apply the setting to other user
profiles, you may export the following branch to a REG file. Then edit the
REG file using Notepad, and delete all other values except "NoDrives"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


PC running XP Home

On my own user account, I can make drives visible/invisible, using
TweakUI.
When another user logs on, all the drives on my PC are visible and there
is
no "Drives" branch shown in TweakUI.


I thought I would start by uninstalling and then installing the latest
TweakUI - just in case!

I ran Regedit and set "24" in the first column of NoDrives as I want to
hide
drives D+E.

When I restarted the PC, there was no difference - my account and my
husband's account could not see the D+E drives but the Friends user
account
(Limited) could!

When I started up my PC this morning, the "24" had reset itself to "18" in
the registry!

I can't think what else to try. Any ideas, please?
Click to expand...
 

Ask a Question

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

You'll need to choose a username for the site, which only take a couple of moments. After that, you can post your question and our members will help you out.

Ask a Question

Similar Threads

Tweakui 7
I can't automatically rebooy anymore 4
Locked out of PC when password set - TweakUI responsible? 3
Problem with TweakI 4
Cannot access TWEAKUI XP not administrator? 4
TweakUI missing "Repair My Documents Icon" etc 6
using two user accts 4
Autologon set, but doesn't stick 3

Top