Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Hide libraries, favorites, homegroup in Windows Explorer navigation pane


The Windows Explorer Navigation Pane Configuration Tool (WENPCFG) is open source and hosted on github, which enables you to show or hide the following nodes and their sub nodes in the navigation pane of Windows Explorer and also in the Open- and Save-File-Dialogs introduced in Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012:

  • Libraries
  • Favorites
  • Computer
  • Network
  • Home Group
  • User Files
  • OneDrive (experimental for Windows 10)
  • Quick Access (experimental for Windows 10)

NOTE: Changing the configuration of Windows
Explorer to show or hide any of the above nodes
affects every user logging on to this computer.
It is not possible to set this per user. It is a
machine based configuration.

WENPCFG is a command line application and is
only intended for
Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and
Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
.
Running WENPCFG requires
elevated privileges.
Release History:
2010: developed for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
2012: added support for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
2014: added support for Window Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
2015: added support for Windows 10

For further details check out the wenpcfg/docs directory.