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!

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.

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.

I updated the article with the link to the MSDN article on Known Default Folders in Windows.

Webster

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

pi

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…

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

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

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?

Thanks,
Jerry

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

Alain,

Can you share with me exactly how you went about to hide the Desktop, Documents, etc?

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

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

[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

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

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