Friday, August 15, 2014

How to remove Libraries/Folders from This PC or Windows Explorer and customize drive's viewing style in windows 8 and windows 8.1

After Installing windows 8 , the first annoying thing i noticed is the libraries are shown right on the windows explorer on the HDD icons and the CD/DVD Rom and other media devices were in same tab,which made me pretty uncomfortable , i spent a huge time searching on the web for a way to remove them but at that there were no info about this problem , after too many try's i finally found a way to remove the libraries from the Explorer , Be-four it was used to look like this

How to remove Libraries from This PC or Windows Explorer and customize drive's viewing style in windows 8 and windows 8.1
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Let's Remove these :

Step 1 : Press WindowsKey+R to open Run and Type regedit in run to open registry editor


Step 2 : Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace   and inside NameSpace delete all the folders without "DelegateFolders" folder , after this step NameSpace Should look like this :



Now , close Registry Editor and enter This PC , Magic !!! the Folder's are gone but still the CD/DVDRom, Removal Device and HDD Drive's are shown together , that's quite annoying right?



Let's Make'em Look Good :

1 . Goto ThisPC / Explorar right click on any empty place , hover over "Sort By" and click on More




2 . In Choose details Click on File System and then press ok



3 . Right click on any empty place on Explorer again , hover over "Sort By" and click on File System option Like this



That's The Much You Can Do about Explorar to beautify , Rename This pc to anything you want simply by right clicking on The ThisPC icon and Goto Rename Option , Can't Get ThisPC/My Computer Icon ? Get it easily From Here Now.......

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