How to get rid of 'Network' menu item in Windows Explorer

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2014-07
  • Vladimirs

    I tried to delete it from context menu > Delete and it pops up Confirm Delete dialog and when I am pressing Yes - nothing happens.

    I am using Win7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit.

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    • Answers
  • bgStack

    Hiding the Network item in Windows Explorer

    One way to do this is to use the Registry Editor.

    1. Run regedit in the Start Menu search box.
    2. Goto this key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}\ShellFolder
    3. You will probably need to change the permissions of the Shellfolder key. Right-click it and select "Permissions." Give Administrators "Full Control." Permissions
    4. Back at the main regedit screen, change the value of the Attributes DWORD value to b0940064. DWORD value adjusted
    5. Log off or reboot to make the change take effect. (Technically you need to restart explorer, so if you run Task Manager you can manually select Explorer and end it and then File\New Task it.)

    Source: http://www.askvg.com/how-to-remove-network-from-windows-7-explorers-navigation-pane/


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  • maaartinus

    Whenever I move or delete files in Windows XP, the explorer seems to have to ask me, if I really want to do it, whenever there's a read-only file, or an executable, or for some other strange reasons. This is very annoying, especially in case of executables, since they're surely no more valuable than regular files. Moreover, it slows down operations which should take no time.

    I mostly use better tools like FreeCommander, but sometimes the explorer is handy. Is there a way to switch this "feature" off?

    Update: This is NOT about the confirmation, when I press DELETE. This confirmation is OK and I want to keep it. What I want to get rid of, is the additional confirmation for deleting or moving files Windows considers important (but I do not). For example, when moving a large directory, Windows seems to look at all the files therein, in order to ask me if I really want to move foo.exe. I say "Yes to ALL", then it finds a read-only file, I say "Yes to ALL", then it finds... and finally I find myself swearing like a sailor.


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  • 8088

    A picture says more than a thousand words

    Files are read-only for that purpose, consider command line movement or other more specialized tool if you want to force movement. TeraCopy allows you to force movement using a shell extension...

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  • David Failor

    The easiest way I found is to right click the Recycle Bin and go to properties. Disable the delete confirmation by unchecking the box. Hope that helps.

  • Ciaran

    Here's a very messy AutoHotKey script that will do what you want.

    I say messy because...

    1. You press your delete key. It then tries to use Ctrl + c as if you did it in Explorer. This also copies a string with the path to the file to the clipboard
    2. It won't distinguish between windows. Your delete key is gone if you use this.
    3. It has to wait a bit before it can paste the path into the command prompt

    4. This is a stupid way of pressing enter after you press delete. Seriously, it doesn't slow anything down.

      send, {control down}c{control up} Run cmd Sleep,300 send, del /q %clipboard% {return} exit {return}

    Now, you can pretty it up somewhat by wrapping the whole thing in a check to see if it's an Explorer folder. This will remove the dilemma of it trying to do something like del /q http://superuser.com/questions/pressing-del-then-enter-is-too-slow-for-me if you haven't got a file path copied.

    If you need more info on AutoHotKey, Google is your friend.