Fine-tuning Win8.1 this computer

Once upon a time there was a joke: A friend was educated in the office: "I said Comrade Xiao Wang, although this computer is used by you to report it to you, but you are not so arrogant." ...” Poor he had to change the name of the icon to "Everybody's computer".

I think everyone already knows that the protagonist in this joke is the "My Computer" icon on the desktop of the computer. I want to name it at the beginning of Microsoft, but it is also for the user to understand, but inadvertently brought some The troubles in communication, especially the rookie users who lack computer knowledge. Perhaps Microsoft realized that there might be a problem. After the release of the Vista system, “My Computer” was changed to “Computer”, and Windows 7 and Windows 8 also used this name.
Windows 8.1 is called "this computer"

However, in the Windows 8.1 preview released recently, the name "computer" changed again, now it is called "this" Computer (This PC)”. With the name change, it also includes the navigation panel, component project changes, if you feel that the new version of "this computer" is still not easy to use, then you can do some fine-tuning according to the following guidelines.

Customize the navigation panel display content

Favorites and libraries

Right-click in the blank space of the navigation bar to see two more items on the context menu, showing favorites. And display the library, remove the two previous hooks to remove the two items from the navigation panel.
Favorites and libraries can be removed at any time

Family groups and networks

These two items cannot be removed directly, but can be done by modifying the registry.

Note 1: The following operations involve registry modification, please be cautious.

Note 2: The following operations involve the need to manually obtain full control of the ShellFolder item.

Method: Right-click the item, click “Permissions”, then select the currently logged in user in the “group or username", then check the <quo;full control”&mdash in the permission list below ;—“Allow”, finally quit.

Family Group

1. Open the Registry Editor and navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{B4FB3F98-C1EA-428d-A78A-D1F5659CBA93}ShellFolder;

2. Double-click "Attributes" in the right window and change its data value (hexadecimal) to "b094010c";

3. To restore the display, change the above data value back. <;b084010c”

Network

1. Open the Registry Editor and navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}ShellFolder;

2. Double-click "Attributes" in the right window and change its data value (hexadecimal) to "b0940064";

3. To restore the display, the above data will be The value is changed back to “b0040064”.

After completing the above two changes, logout or restart the system, the home group and network will not be displayed in the navigation panel.

Remove the six folders under "This computer"

How to remove the six folder items of video, image, document, download, music, desktop

The Windows 8.1 preview version renamed the computer to "this computer", and also gave "this computer" a six folder project, namely video, photo, document, download, music, The desktop, these folders are located in the root directory, every time you open & ldquo; this computer & rdquo; will see them first. From the habit of most people, the utilization of these folders is actually very low, and it is better to take up the window space. It is better to remove them.

Simple but not completely hidden

This method is very simple, but not thorough enough, just hide and hide these folders. Click the small arrow to the left of the “folder” name or double-click on that column to collapse the six folders.
Folding six folders to hide

Slightly complicated but thorough removal

This method needs to be done by modifying the registry.

1. Open the Registry Editor and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerMyComputerNameSpace;

2. Delete the following subkeys under NameSpace;
Delete these to make those folders disappear
{1CF1260C-4DD0-4ebb-811F-33C572699FDE} Corresponds to <;Music" {374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B} Corresponds to "Download"  {3ADD1653-EB32-4cb0-BBD7-DFA0ABB5ACCA} Corresponds to &ldquo ;Image” {A0953C92-50DC-43bf-BE83-3742FED03C9C} Corresponds to "Video" {A8CDFF1C-4878-43be-B5FD-F8091C1C60D0} Corresponds to "Document" {B4BFCC3A-DB2C-424C-B029-7FE99A87C641} Correspondence “Desktop 

You can delete only a few of them, or you can delete these six items at once, and the entire folder will follow Disappear. If you want to restore these six folders, you can create corresponding sub-items under NameSpace.