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How To Disable Windows XP Administrative Share

The document provides instructions for permanently disabling hidden administrative shares in Windows NT/2000/XP. It explains that these shares are automatically created for drives and the WINDOWS folder, but are not needed for most users. The steps include opening Regedit, navigating to a specific registry key, and creating a value to disable the shares from being recreated on reboot. Verification is done by checking for the shares in Computer Management after a restart.

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How To Disable Windows XP Administrative Share

The document provides instructions for permanently disabling hidden administrative shares in Windows NT/2000/XP. It explains that these shares are automatically created for drives and the WINDOWS folder, but are not needed for most users. The steps include opening Regedit, navigating to a specific registry key, and creating a value to disable the shares from being recreated on reboot. Verification is done by checking for the shares in Computer Management after a restart.

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How to disable Windows NT/2000/XP hidden administrative share

The system automatically creates hidden "administrative shares" for its logical drives C, D and so forth which it names C$, D$ and so forth. It also creates the admin$ hidden share for to the \WINDOW folder. These shares are designed for remote access su!!ort "y domain administrators. #y default, if you delete these admin shares, they will "e recreated when you re"oot. To disa"le !ermanently so they will not "e recreated on the ne$t re"oot, use the following Windows %&&& ' Windows () registry hac*+

In command window write regedit

Go to Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Ex and it

Go to Ke!: "Y"#EM$C%rrentContro&"et$"ervi'es$LanMan"erver$(arameters

Create an entr! o) D*O+D va&%e ,ith the name A%to"hare*-s do%.&e '&i'- it and /ive it va&%e 01

Next time when you will boot your system your administrative share will be disabled. How to check the administrative share are disabled. Go to computer icon on desktop and right click and click Manage

There should not any share

!" #! or admin!.

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