Comments on: How to Remove “Homegroup” from Windows 7 Explorer’s Navigation Pane?

By: Mesh

Mesh — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:41:10 +0000

I find this link below much easier to follow to get the same results.

http://www.askvg.com/how-to-disable-homegroup-feature-in-windows-7/

By: Ly Thomsen (aka BadBlue)

Ly Thomsen (aka BadBlue) — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:23:28 +0000

GRRRRR. Now I've actually asked him he says it's an old version I copied the code from hex does work for reg add but you need to add 0x to the beginning *Shrugs* either way the decimal value works anyways but since hex is used in the manual step-by-step tutorial prob'ly left confusing for folks to use that. so the code for that is... Set NP="HKCR\CLSID\{B4FB3F98-C1EA-428d-A78A-D1F5659CBA93}\ShellFolder" "SetACL.exe" -on %NP% -ot reg -actn setowner -ownr "n:S-1-5-32-544;s:y" "SetACL.exe" -on %NP% -ot reg -actn ace -ace "n:Administrators;p:full" "SetACL.exe" -on %NP% -ot reg -actn ace -ace "n:Users;p:full" REG ADD %NP% /v Attributes /d 0xb094010c /t REG_DWORD /f

By: Ly Thomsen (aka BadBlue)

Ly Thomsen (aka BadBlue) — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:08:06 +0000

Grr, sorry. It should read above that the value needs to be in decimal for the reg add command

By: Ly Thomsen (aka BadBlue)

Ly Thomsen (aka BadBlue) — Mon, 30 May 2011 13:06:10 +0000

Rich if you want do this from the commandline, you can do what my husband does and employ setacl to do so. this is just a snippet for hiding homegroup as an example, libraries, favourites can be hidden this way etc (this is a small section from his heavy duty batch file) note the value needs to be in decimal not hex for setacl Set NP="HKCR\CLSID\{B4FB3F98-C1EA-428d-A78A-D1F5659CBA93}\ShellFolder" "SetACL.exe" -on %NP% -ot reg -actn setowner -ownr "n:S-1-5-32-544;s:y" "SetACL.exe" -on %NP% -ot reg -actn ace -ace "n:Administrators;p:full" "SetACL.exe" -on %NP% -ot reg -actn ace -ace "n:Users;p:full" REG ADD %NP% /v Attributes /d 2962489612 /t REG_DWORD /f

By: Annie Bee

Annie Bee — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:39:06 +0000

Windows 7
And I thought I was the only person in the world to find "Libraries", "Homegroup", etc., an annoying feature of Windows 7.

By: Fredrik Andersson

Fredrik Andersson — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:08:39 +0000

I tried this long with the disable the hole 'Home Group' function but this didn't work aswell. I took ownership of the folder in question (inside regedit). I copied you value for the 'attributes' and rebooted but the icon is still there and your value is still there but it doesn't do much.

By: VG

VG — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:33:05 +0000

^^ Its not possible in any case. Please check again in Registry. Without CLSID key, Windows can't exist.

By: brands

brands — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:55:02 +0000

I don't have a CLSID file.. only a CLS

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 02 May 2010 06:10:11 +0000

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?

By: VG

VG — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:35:01 +0000

^^ Since you need to take the permission on the key first, you can't use a Registry script directly.