Once upon a time there was a joke: A friend was led 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 already know 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. It is also for the user to understand, but inadvertently brought some communication. Troubled, especially 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.
It is called "This computer" in Windows 8.1. 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
Direct right in the blank space of the navigation bar, you can see two more on the context menu, display the favorites and display library, remove the two fronts You can remove these 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 implemented 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"—— “Allow & rdquo;, finally decided to 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. ;, change its data value (hexadecimal) to "ld094;b094010c";
3, to restore the display, change the above data value back to "b084010c",
network
1, open the registration Table editor, navigate to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}ShellFolder;
2, double-click "Attributes" in the right window, and its data value (hex) Change to “b0940064”;
3. To restore the display, change the above data value 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, picture, document, download, music, desktop
Windows 8.1 preview except The computer was renamed to "this computer", and the "this computer" was added to six folder items, namely video, picture, document, download, music, desktop, these folders are located at the root Under the directory, every time you open “ 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 is hidden
Slightly complicated but completely removed
This method needs to be implemented by modifying the registry.
1, open the registry editor, navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerMyComputerNameSpace;
2, delete the following sub-items under NameSpace;
Delete these to let 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<quo;Image&rdquo {A0953C92-50DC-43bf-BE83-3742FED03C9C} Correspondingly "Video" {A8CDFF1C-4878-43be-B5FD-F8091C1C60D0} Corresponding to "Document" {B4BFCC3A-DB2C-424C-B029-7FE99A87C641} Corresponding to “ Desktop ” You can delete only a few of them, or you can delete these six items at once, and the entire folder will disappear. If you want to restore these six folders, you can create corresponding sub-items under NameSpace.