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Chevy · 02-02-2006, 02:27 AM

This is called an Administrative Share (The $ indicates this). It is hidden, and only accessible to those with admin access. You can turn it off permanently (it is not needed).

To remove administrative shares without letting Win2K recreate them every time you reboot the system, you need to edit the registry. Start regedit and go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters subkey. From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD Value to create the new values AutoShareServer and AutoShareWks; set each value's data to 0 (i.e., false). Next, go to each drive, right-click, and select Sharing. Then, select Do not share this folder.

02-02-2006, 02:27 AM	#4 (permalink)
Chevy Retired Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Notlob Posts: 5,452 OS: Vista Ultimate My System	This is called an Administrative Share (The $ indicates this). It is hidden, and only accessible to those with admin access. You can turn it off permanently (it is not needed). To remove administrative shares without letting Win2K recreate them every time you reboot the system, you need to edit the registry. Start regedit and go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters subkey. From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD Value to create the new values AutoShareServer and AutoShareWks; set each value's data to 0 (i.e., false). Next, go to each drive, right-click, and select Sharing. Then, select Do not share this folder.