Windows 10: Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10

Thanks for fixing the attachment Brink.

I should add: I put all the Wow6432Node keys in there, for 64-bit systems. If you run it on a 32-bit system, it will probably just fail on those. But those are run after the normal ones, so you should be able to ignore the failures.

 

it stopped working after today's update 06/08/2015

 

Hello Rohith, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

Be sure that you did both steps 1 and 2 in OPTION ONE for the keys of the folder(s) you want to remove.

 

yeah, nvm, restarting the PC helped *Smile

 

Nice, seems to work fine. Saved it for the next time i reformat.

 

Actually scratch that. I reverted the permissions on one of my keys to test it out again for sure. Everything seems to work out when running the script, but a quick check in the registry shows it's still blocked by TrustedInstaller.

I had done some digging myself last night for a solution in powershell for this. A few leads came close, but nothing actually worked when used against TrustedInstaller. Oh well, manually doing it is really not that bad if you know what you are doing.

 

What do you mean by "blocked"? Did you look up the keys in regedit and the owner is still TrustedInstaller?

 

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yes, and it's still the only one with full control access.

 

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OK. I saw that on mine too. I did a few of them manually before deciding to script it. I guess that was enough to do the trick since the folders were gone.

I made some changes, but it's still choking on one of them. I don't know why that one is different, but whatever. I'll figure it out tonight or tomorrow.

 

I don't know why Microsoft makes this such a nightmare. The .reg file seems to have worked, but I am still getting this error dialog when I use it.





And yes, I did the following.

1. If you have not already, you will need to first change the owner of the registry keys below one at a time for the folder(s) you want to remove to be the Administrators group.

2. If you have not already, you will need to second set permissions of the registry keys below one at a time for the folder(s) you want to remove to "Allow" the Administrators group "Full control".

 

Hello Megalith, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

For now, please double check each key to see if you may have missed one. It wouldn't be hard to do.

 

Here's an updated script. I verified that the permissions in the registry do, in fact, change, and the .reg file completes with no errors.

Again, rename to .ps1 and run PowerShell as an Administrator.

setpermissions.txt

For those who didn't see my last post, you may have to run this command manually before PowerShell will let you run this (or any) script:

I had modified a few keys manually before I wrote the script, so I think that skewed my results earlier.

 

My "This PC" folders came back today after updates. So is there a way to keep them gone, or must one run the Remove_All_user_Folders_in_This_PC.reg regularly? Like at Startup?