Disable hidden administrative shares

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(TIP: To take Windows XP registry editor- Start > Run Type there regedit.exe And press enter)



Even if you haven’t shared any of your files or folders, an administrator (or anyone who knows a valid username and password for an account you’ve given administrative privileges) can remotely access your data by using the hidden administrative shares that XP creates by default. There is an administrative share for every drive on your system, but it doesn’t show up in the network browse list (My Network Places) because it has been marked as hidden by appending a dollar sign ($) to the end of the drive letter. You can delete these shares, but XP will just grow them back the next time you reboot. To prevent this, disable administrative shares by performing the following registry edit


1. In your registry editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanager\parameters.
2. In an empty portion of the right details pane, right-click and select New | DWORD Value.
3. Rename the new value AutoShareWks.
4. Double-click the new value and enter 0 in the Value Data field.



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