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I followed this post, remove 3d objects and was able to get rid of the folders that I don't want like Music, Pictures and Videos. But under the This PC in the Navigation Pane, I am able to see those.

Is there a group policy setting or any registry setting that I can enable to get rid of those?

Here is what the explorer looks like:

This PC

EDIT:

All answers are valid to apply this setting to the whole computer. After doing some research I saw, under this path "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace(some value)" in the registry you have to delete the respective keys to hide the folders from This PC. Something like this.

But I don't want to apply this setting to the whole machine. I have 2 accounts. One admin and one standard. I logged in to the Admin, I am adding a standard account. I click on HKEY_USERS -> File -> Load Hive -> Added NTUSER.dat. But problem is, I can't find MyComputer under the Explorer here. The path is, "Computer\HKEY_USERS\IT ADMIN\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Can't find MyComputer Node"

But I don't understand how is it showing the Music, Videos and Pictures in the Navigation Pane.

Nikhil ans
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This should help:

  1. Goto this Git and copy text
  2. Save file as .REG file
  3. Edit the file: remove unwanted lines ( leave only object you wish to hide )
  4. Run the script

Godspeed

Edit: Futureproofing, while keeping the link & credit. Hope this is acceptable?

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; delete keys for 3D Objects
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace{0DB7E03F-FC29-4DC6-9020-FF41B59E513A}]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace{0DB7E03F-FC29-4DC6-9020-FF41B59E513A}]


; hide Documents Folder from Computer
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions{f42ee2d3-909f-4907-8871-4c22fc0bf756}\PropertyBag]
"ThisPCPolicy"="Hide"


; hide Pictures Folder
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions{0ddd015d-b06c-45d5-8c4c-f59713854639}\PropertyBag]
"ThisPCPolicy"="Hide"


; hide Videos Folder
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions{35286a68-3c57-41a1-bbb1-0eae73d76c95}\PropertyBag]
"ThisPCPolicy"="Hide"


; hide Downloads Folder
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions{7d83ee9b-2244-4e70-b1f5-5393042af1e4}\PropertyBag]
"ThisPCPolicy"="Hide"


; hide Music Folder
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions{a0c69a99-21c8-4671-8703-7934162fcf1d}\PropertyBag]
"ThisPCPolicy"="Hide"


; hide Desktop Folder
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions{B4BFCC3A-DB2C-424C-B029-7FE99A87C641}\PropertyBag]
"ThisPCPolicy"="Hide"
Netan
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