Introduction
When installing Microsoft Office 2010, you will be amazed that your system appears to have one new drive: Local disk (Q). This drive can make a user uncomfortable because it is useless and inaccessible. And after a few hours of surfing the internet, I feel it is interesting to successfully hide the useless drive.
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Microsoft Excel 2010
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Microsoft PowerPoint
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Local Disk (Q)
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Inaccessible
The reason for this appearing is that Microsoft Office 2010 uses Click and Run version which applies the App-V technology. “Drive Q: comes from Click and Run version of Office 2010. This drive is used by the App-V technology which is used by the Click and Run version.”
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Drive Q can be seen by the registry.
There are 2 solutions to solve this:
- If you already used TweakUI or you want an easy way to do, it is the best solution:
- Download TweakUI
- Run TweakUI -> Drives
- Uncheck drive Q and Click Apply button at the bottom right
- Using Registry
- Start Menu >> Run and type regedit and press Enter
- Navigate to the following path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
(If Explorer is not here, you can right click and select new key and enter Explorer to create key Explorer as image below.)
- Right click New >> DWORD (32-bits) value:
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- Value Name: NoDrives
- Value Data (Decimal): 65536
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- Restart your machine to apply changes and see your work.
History
- 28th June, 2010: Initial version
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