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Removing Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos Folders from Navigation Pane

Carl Webster October 30, 201518

For a recent XenApp 7.6 project, the IT Manager wanted no one to access various folders shown in the Navigation pane in Explorer, Save, or SaveAs dialogs. This article shows how I solved this request.

Note: This article was updated on 28-Feb-2017 with information some people had requested from Alain Assaf. Alain’s updates are at the bottom of this article.

Updated on 2-Dec-2019 with the missing MSDN link for Default Known Folders in Windows.

The manager wanted the Desktop, Documents and other folders, as shown in Figure 1, removed from under “This PC” for all users for every published resource on every XenApp 7.6 server.

All that should remain is the Local C drive and any mapped drives the user had access to.

The only way I could find to do this is by deleting data from the registry. Insert standard disclaimer for mucking around in the registry here. Make sure you make a backup of the registry keys involved before implementing these changes.

I created a group policy with a Computer Startup script. I named my script DeleteFoldersFromNavigationPane.bat, which has the following content:

reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{B4BFCC3A-DB2C-424C-B029-7FE99A87C641} /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{A8CDFF1C-4878-43be-B5FD-F8091C1C60D0} /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B} /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{1CF1260C-4DD0-4ebb-811F-33C572699FDE} /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{3ADD1653-EB32-4cb0-BBD7-DFA0ABB5ACCA} /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{A0953C92-50DC-43bf-BE83-3742FED03C9C} /f

My apologies, but I forgot to save the link to the MSDN article that gave the {CLSID} values for the various folders, and now I can’t find the article.

Update on 2-Dec-2019: I get a lot of requests for other folders. I finally found the MSDN article.

Default Known Folders in Windows

The values for the various folders:

Desktop:   {B4BFCC3A-DB2C-424C-B029-7FE99A87C641}
Documents: {A8CDFF1C-4878-43be-B5FD-F8091C1C60D0}
Downloads: {374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}
Music:     {1CF1260C-4DD0-4ebb-811F-33C572699FDE}
Pictures:  {3ADD1653-EB32-4cb0-BBD7-DFA0ABB5ACCA}
Videos:    {A0953C92-50DC-43bf-BE83-3742FED03C9C}

PLEASE MAKE A BACKUP of the following registry key BEFORE using this StartUp script.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace

Once the group policy and script have been created and linked to the Organizational Unit that contains your XenApp 7.x servers, the folders will be removed for EVERY user, as shown in Figure 2.

I could not find a way to make this per user, only per computer. Sorry about that.

I personally think this is an ugly solution but the only solution I could come up with within the time I had.

Update 28-Feb-2017 by Alain Assaf:

To apply these settings to a Windows 2012 R2 deployment, I did the following.

I created a User Policy that I applied to all of my W2012R2 XenApp Servers. I created a Registry Collection and added the following registry settings to remove items from the Navigation Pane within this policy. You will notice some duplication below. In my environment, I had to hide the regular favorites shortcut along with the Library shortcut. In addition, I found different CLSID values for Music, Pictures, Videos, and Documents, so I applied these as well. Note the websites listed in the descriptions below. These sites led me to use a particular registry setting.

Collection	HidingItemsNavPane
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Apply once and do not reapply	No

Registry item	Hide Network
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Network Location from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/

Registry item	Hide Libraries
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Libraries from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/

Registry item	Hide Desktop
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{B4BFCC3A-DB2C-424C-B029-7FE99A87C641}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Desktop from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Registry item	Hide Downloads
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Downloads from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Registry item	Hide Music
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{4BD8D571-6D19-48D3-BE97-422220080E43}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Music Folder from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Registry item	Hide Pictures
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{33E28130-4E1E-4676-835A-98395C3BC3BB}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Pictures Folder from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Registry item	Hide Videos
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{18989B1D-99B5-455B-841C-AB7C74E4DDFC}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Videos Folder from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Registry item	Hide Favorites
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{1777F761-68AD-4D8A-87BD-30B759FA33DD}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Favorites Location from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Registry item	Hide Music Library
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{2112AB0A-C86A-4FFE-A368-0DE96E47012E}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Music Library Location from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Registry item	Hide Pictures Library
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{A990AE9F-A03B-4E80-94BC-9912D7504104}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Pictures Library Location from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Registry item	Hide Videos Library
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{491E922F-5643-4AF4-A7EB-4E7A138D8174}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Videos library Location from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Registry item	Hide Documents
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{FDD39AD0-238F-46AF-ADB4-6C85480369C7}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Documents Folder from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Registry item	Hide Documents Library
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{7B0DB17D-9CD2-4A93-9733-46CC89022E7C}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Documents Library Folder from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Registry item	Hide Music 2
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{1CF1260C-4DD0-4ebb-811F-33C572699FDE}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Music Folder from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Registry item	Hide Pictures 2
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{3ADD1653-EB32-4cb0-BBD7-DFA0ABB5ACCA}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Music Folder from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Registry item	Hide Videos 2
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{A0953C92-50DC-43bf-BE83-3742FED03C9C}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Music Folder from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Registry item	Hide Documents 2
General
Action	Replace
Properties
Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key path	Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Value name	{A8CDFF1C-4878-43be-B5FD-F8091C1C60D0}
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1 (1)
Common
Options
Stop processing items on this extension if an error occurs on this item	No
Run in logged-on user’s security context (user policy option)	No
Remove this item when it is no longer applied	Yes
Description	Hides Music Folder from Navigation Pane https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-desktop-documents-downloads-music-pictures-and-videos-folders-from-navigation-pane/ and https://www.carlwebster.com/removing-the-network-location-from-the-navigation-pane/ and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Thanks

Webster

Last updated on June 1, 2021

Carl Webster

Webster is a Sr. Solutions Architect for Choice Solutions, LLC and specializes in Citrix, Active Directory and Technical Documentation. Webster has been working with Citrix products for many years starting with Multi-User OS/2 in 1990.

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18 Comments

Jack

July 4, 2023, 11:30 am

wonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnderful! Thank you soooooooooo much!!

For months, I have tried to find the .reg or info to hide the Contacts folder in the navig.pane on my win7 32bit.
I do not use the silly thing.
I could not find it and have not found this info on the web the last several months I have tried.

Any help is just so deeeeeeply appreciated!
God Bless!
pi

November 24, 2019, 9:25 am

This works as described. Yet I would actually like to get rid of those folders, such as:
C:\Users\$USER\Music
C:\Users\$USER\Pictures
C:\Users\$USER\Videos

Any idea? Once deleted, they quickly get automatically recreated.

pi
- Carl Webster
  
  December 2, 2019, 11:38 am
  
  I updated the article with the link to the MSDN article on Known Default Folders in Windows.
  
  Webster
Rob J

February 20, 2019, 1:21 pm

and if you want to also block for Win 10/2016 there are some new GUIDs to NonEnum

Music – {3dfdf296-dbec-4fb4-81d1-6a3438bcf4de}
Downloads – {088e3905-0323-4b02-9826-5d99428e115f}
Pictures – {24ad3ad4-a569-4530-98e1-ab02f9417aa8}
Videos – {f86fa3ab-70d2-4fc7-9c99-fcbf05467f3a}
Documents – {d3162b92-9365-467a-956b-92703aca08af}

Desktop GUID is unchanged…
Bob

October 22, 2018, 7:54 pm

Carl,
Good stuff!
Quick question. We have these entries in place now and working great, but wanted to bring back one of them, the Favorites. Even after disabling those entries tied to Favorites, they don’t come back. Any ideas?
- Carl Webster
  
  October 23, 2018, 2:49 pm
  
  Sorry, I don’t. I haven’t had to deal with this issue in a long time and don’t have anything in my lab I can use to test this scenario out with right now.
  
  Webster
Roni Nuriel

June 29, 2018, 8:25 am

Hello,

thanks for great post,
after I hid the desktop folder, users still see the desktop folder from save as….( saving a doc from word)
any idea how to hide it from there also?
- Carl Webster
  
  July 4, 2018, 11:28 am
  
  I sent your query on to fellow CTP James Rankin. Here is what he replied to you directly.
  
  Please try this.
  
  First open Registry Editor and browse to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{679f85cb-0220-4080-b29b-5540cc05aab6}
  
  Get the Permissions on this key, and change the owner to Administrators. Cascade it to all subfolders.
  
  Now change the permissions for Administrators to Full Control on the key.
  
  Now go to the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{679f85cb-0220-4080-b29b-5540cc05aab6}\ShellFolder. There is an Attributes value in here, change it to a hexadecimal value of a0700000
  
  Now create a file called import.reg file with the following content:
  
  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
  
  ; Remove Desktop From This PC
  [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{B4BFCC3A-DB2C-424C-B029-7FE99A87C641}]
  [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{B4BFCC3A-DB2C-424C-B029-7FE99A87C641}]
  
  Once you have saved the file locally, right-click it and choose Merge
  
  Once this is done, restart your application and see if the Save AS dialog has changed?
  
  Thanks, James and Webster
  - FU
    
    July 2, 2023, 9:39 am
    
    Hi Carl. Could you tell me the values/method for other folders (doc, download, music, pic, vid) in Win11’s Save as dialog? I want to get rid of them too.
    - Carl Webster
      
      July 4, 2023, 11:12 am
      
      Sorry, I don’t have a clue. There should be a Microsoft document showing them. That is what I used when I wrote that article.
Jerry

April 7, 2017, 12:37 pm

I followed the instructions exactly and still get the server favorites, desktop etc icons. This is on a 2012R2 server with RDS installed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jerry
Alain Assaf

February 11, 2016, 2:35 pm

Hello Carl,

I had a need to hide these folders as well and I’m doing it with a Windows 2012 R2 image. Carl, I hope you recall where you got your {CLSID} values, because they work in W2012R2 and not all match the {CLSID} values that are listed in the MSDN article Krystian posted. Only Desktop and Downloads are the same.

I was able to follow Krystian’s example and use GPO preferences to hide these items using a GPO preferences setting.

Thanks,
Alain
- Carl Webster
  
  February 11, 2016, 2:49 pm
  
  I did a search on the desktop GUID restricted to site:msdn.microsoft.com and these were the first two hits.
  
  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457(v=vs.85).aspx
  https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/bb882665(v=vs.100).aspx
  
  Webster
- Alex
  
  February 24, 2017, 8:01 am
  
  Alain,
  
  Can you share with me exactly how you went about to hide the Desktop, Documents, etc?
  - Alain Assaf
    
    February 24, 2017, 9:46 am
    
    Alex,
    
    I would be happy to. Send me an email at alainassaf [AT] OUTLOOK [DOT] COM and I’ll send you what I did.
    
    Take care,
    Alain
Krystian Skoczylas

November 24, 2015, 6:24 am

These registry entries worked for me per user on Win7/Windows 2008 R2.
Set the values in GPO Preferences:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum]

for Network:
“{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}”=dword:00000001

for Libraries:
“{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}”=dword:00000001

And MSDN article with Known Folder IDs:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Best regards,
Krystian
James Rankin

November 11, 2015, 8:07 am

Hi Webster

I also did a bit of work around the various Libraries and found you could manipulate this per-user with GPOs – not sure if these are still applicable on Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.x though

http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/customizing-visible-libraries-in.html

I will revisit this from a Windows 8/Server 2012 perspective as soon as I can.

Cheers,

JR
Timco Hazelaar

October 31, 2015, 10:03 am

Aloha Carl,

Great post m8, I always use the following tool: WENPCFG, http://www.s-inn.de/blog/post/remove-Libraries-Favorites-in-windows-explorer-navigation-pane.aspx

Regards,

Timco Hazelaar
EUC Computer Architect

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