If you enable "Navigation Pane" in Windows 7 Explorer, it shows following 5 items in the pane:
- Favorites
- Libraries
- Homegroup
- Computer
- Network
This tutorial will help you in removing "Homegroup" item from the Navigation pane as shown in following screenshot:
Simply follow these simple steps:
1. Type regedit in RUN or startmenu search box and press Enter. It'll open Registry Editor.
2. Now go to following key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B4FB3F98-C1EA-428d-A78A-D1F5659CBA93}\ShellFolder
3. Now you'll need to change value of "Attributes" DWORD value present in the right-side section. But Windows will not allow you to change its value as you won't have proper permissions.
To get permissions, first right-click on "ShellFolder" key and select "Permissions".
It'll open a new window. Select "Administrators" in user list and check "Allow" box given for "Full Control" permission.
Click on OK button to apply the changes.
4. Now double-click on "Attributes" DWORD value given in right-side section and change its value to b094010c
5. That's it. Log off or restart your system and "Homegroup" will no longer present in Explorer window.
NOTE: If you want to restore "Homegroup" in Navigation pane, simply change value of "Attributes" DWORD to b084010c using step 4.
PS: If you want to completely disable "Homegroup" feature, you can visit following tutorial:
How to Disable “HomeGroup” Feature in Windows 7?
Also Read:
- How to Remove "Favorites" from Windows 7 Explorer's Navigation Pane?
- How to Remove "Libraries" from Windows 7 Explorer's Navigation Pane?
- How to Remove "Computer" from Windows 7 Explorer's Navigation Pane?
- How to Remove "Network" from Windows 7 Explorer's Navigation Pane?
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TheAslan
Hiya!!
Thanx for this! It worked 100%! But is there any way to create a reg file which i can click to add the keys in registry, it's just more simple in that way..can you give me some direction of how to create a reg file which removes this Homegroup thing..
Thanx mate so much for help!!!
VG
^^ Since you need to take the permission on the key first, you can't use a Registry script directly.
Rich
Hey Vishal would it be possible to make a command script to modify keys like this that would automatically give it correct permissions if run as admin?