Tweakui

[S]

Not sure if this is the correct forum.

I use Tweakui and one of the things I do is to hide my other hardrive icon
(D drive) this works fine but the other day I logged on to the guest sign
in and found that despite hiding the icon on my desktop it still shows under
guest.
Under guest I accessed tweakui but it then it would not let me open up the
drives.(so that I could change to `hide` the D drive icon)

Is there a way around this as it kind of defeats the purpose as only guests
use my `guest` log on.
Hope all this makes sense.

regards

 

[Iceman]

Not sure if this is the correct forum.

I use Tweakui and one of the things I do is to hide my other hardrive icon
(D drive) this works fine but the other day I logged on to the guest sign
in and found that despite hiding the icon on my desktop it still shows under
guest.
Under guest I accessed tweakui but it then it would not let me open up the
drives.(so that I could change to `hide` the D drive icon)

Is there a way around this as it kind of defeats the purpose as only guests
use my `guest` log on.
Hope all this makes sense.

regards

If you have tried hiding the drive icons while logged on as Administrator,
and that doesn't work either, you might consider creating a new, limited
account (called "Visitor" or something like that), and then apply TweakUI.
If that works, use the new account for guests.

 

[S]

I only have 2 accounts, mine which is administrator and the other which is
guest, I have set in `administrator` to hide D drive icon which it does but
when I switch to `guest` it shows.

 

[David Webb]

Some of TweakUI's changes are on a per-user basis. You might try this:
Temporarily give the Guest account administration privileges then make the
change in TweakUI. Remove the Guest from the admin group. Restart the system and
see what happens.

 

[Twayne]

I only have 2 accounts, mine which is administrator and the other

which is guest, I have set in `administrator` to hide D drive icon
which it does but when I switch to `guest` it shows.

Try giving guest admin rights, do the change, then set it back to guest
rights.

 

[S]

Try giving guest admin rights, do the change, then set it back to guest
rights.

I switched off `guest` account after creating a `visitor` accout and
rebooted and did not have any icons on the desktop so could not log in. I
rebooted in safe mode and used system restore to get back in.
What did I do wrong?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

This particular setting in TweakUI you're taking about works on a per-user
account basis. If you want to apply the setting for all users, implemente
the "NoDrives" Policy under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry hive.

NoDrives:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nodrives+site:microsoft.com

--
Regards,

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

 

[S]

Ok got as far as REGEDIT........... HKCU\software\microsoft\windows\current
version\policies\explorer

But not sure how/what to change from there.

regards

This particular setting in TweakUI you're taking about works on a per-user
account basis. If you want to apply the setting for all users, implemente
the "NoDrives" Policy under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry hive.

NoDrives:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nodrives+site:microsoft.com

--
Regards,

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

Not sure if this is the correct forum.

I use Tweakui and one of the things I do is to hide my other hardrive
icon (D drive) this works fine but the other day I logged on to the
guest sign in and found that despite hiding the icon on my desktop it
still shows under guest.
Under guest I accessed tweakui but it then it would not let me open up
the drives.(so that I could change to `hide` the D drive icon)

Is there a way around this as it kind of defeats the purpose as only
guests use my `guest` log on.
Hope all this makes sense.

regards