Remove drive-letters for removable drives from Send-To

2 July 2007 by Snakefoot | Comment » | Trackback Off
Windows Vista extends the Send To menu with the drive-letters of the different removable drives installed (Along with mapped network drives).
  • Floppy Disk Drive (A:)
  • DVD/CD-CW (D:)
To configure whether to display removable drives in the sendto context-menu:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Policies \Explorer]
NoDrivesInSendToMenu = 1 (Default no value)

Credits Winhelponline.com
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Updated: 27 September 2007

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Comment by Sharon Johnson - 12 August 2007 @ 6:37 Reply

I want to remove the drives that show in the Right click context menu. Your directions above takes me all the way to the Explorer but then you have NoDrivesInSendToMenu = 1 (Default no value) which isn’t showing. Can you tell me how to add this, or where to find it? You’re the only one to address this subject. Thank you for any help,
Shar

Comment by Snakefoot - 12 August 2007 @ 18:18 Reply

Sharon Johnson
Can you tell me how to add this, or where to find it?

In the registry editor (regedit) you have to create a new DWORD value at the given registry-path with the name NoDrivesInSendToMenu, and give it the value 1. Just right-click in the right-pane to get the option to create new registry values.

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