Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Disable / Remove Network Explorer in Windows Explorer

Looking for a way in Windows 7 to remove the Network Explorer in Windows Exporer? Here is a great Registy setting that can be deployed or set in your master image

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum]
"{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}"=dword:00000001

I deployed this using a group policy preference but this blog post has an adm that can be imported create a GPO.

Thanks to this Blog Post


Another nice guide on how to remove the Network Icon from Windows Explorer on a Win7 Device can be found here

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/39699-network-add-remove-navigation-pane.html