Under My Computer you will notice a new folder called shared documents. Microsoft has made it easy to share files and folders over a network by dragging icons into it. If you wish to remove this folder from My computer all you have to do is delete a key from the windows registry.
- Start regedit, if you are unfamiliar with regedit please see our FAQ.
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders. - Locate the key {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}.
- Right click on it and select delete.
- Reboot may be required to complete!
