WINDOWS 8 - Hide Network in Explorer ADM

[victory2012]

I think someone asked how to do this and i needed to do this too, after looking everywhere for solution i didnt find one other than disabling it in classes.. i then stumbled across a adm file for group policy that does what is needed.

 

might be useful for some people so im posting it here.... advantage is it can be set in the user configuration.

 

CLASS User

CATEGORY !!Custom

CATEGORY !!ExplorerExtras

POLICY !!HideNetworkInExplorer
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum"
EXPLAIN !!HideNetworkInExplorer_Help
VALUENAME "{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}"
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END POLICY

END CATEGORY

END CATEGORY

[strings]
Custom="Custom Policies"
ExplorerExtras="Windows Explorer Extra's"
HideNetworkInExplorer="Hide the Network Icon in Explorer 2008/Vista/Windows 7"
HideNetworkInExplorer_Help="Enable this to hide the network icon, disable or unconfigure to show the network icon."

Edited June 6, 2014 by victory2012