Scheduled tasks and Printers in Network Neighbourhood - remove
I want to remove the shortcuts for Scheduled tasks and Printers for each computer in the network. Operating systems are XP and Vista. All computers are in Win2k3 domain. How can I do it with less effort?
March 17th, 2008 9:57am
To hide the Scheduled Tasks from the network share view, try the steps below:
Click Start, Run and type REGEDIT
Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \RemoteComputer \ NameSpace
Backup the key by exporting it to a .REG file.
To remove Scheduled Tasks, delete the following key:
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}
To remove the Printers folder, delete the following key:
{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
Close Registry Editor.
Note that my machine is XP Pro, it might be slightly different on Vista
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May 3rd, 2008 2:45pm
To hide the Scheduled Tasks from the network share view, try the steps below:
Click Start, Run and type REGEDIT
Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \RemoteComputer \ NameSpace
Backup the key by exporting it to a .REG file.
To remove Scheduled Tasks, delete the following key:
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}
To remove the Printers folder, delete the following key:
{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
Close Registry Editor.
Note that my machine is XP Pro, it might be slightly different on Vista.
May 3rd, 2008 2:52pm