Windows 10: hide empty drives

Hello, I usually work with hidden files enabled, and would like to hide empty drives, but it seems my Win 10 Single Language doesn't have this feature, is this normal? *Sad

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Unable to Hide Empty DVD Drive

Unfortunately, hide empty drives does not hide DVD drives.

If you have e.g. card readers, they will be hidden when you select hide empty drives but only if you select

"don't show hidden files, folders and drives" as well.

 

Empty Drives Displaying Despite Checking "Hide empty drives"

To answer your query, yes, it will show the hidden empty drives because
Show hidden files, folder or drives was selected. The purpose of the
Hide empty drives option is to hide all the empty drives easily.

Let us know if you have further queries.

Regards.

 

Hello myuption, *Smile

If you like, the tutorial below can help show you how to.

Drives - Hide or Show Empty Drives in Computer Folder - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

Exactly that, I don't have any option to hide empty drives. And I searched all the options. :/

 

For Spanish, it should show as "Ocultar unidades vacías".

Check using OPTION THREE in the tutorial I posted above to see if you have the HideDrivesWithNoMedia DWORD to set it with instead.

 

Thanks Brink, but seems like something is not right, and yesterday I reinstalled Win 10.

This is how it looks enabled and disabled, they simply fade a bit, but can't make them hide, maybe a driver is missing?

 

You could remove the drive letters in Disk Management but you must ensure you're not going to use those drives and also that the associated letters will not affect the environment path of any other drive.

 

myuption,

It looks like you have set Windows to show hidden files, folders, and drives. Using step 3 in OPTION THREE of the tutorial below should hide them for you. *Smile

Show Hidden Files, Folders, and Drives in Windows 10 Windows 10 Customization Tutorials

 

Brink's suggestion is the more secure way as you may be disabling card reader/sd card slots by removing drive letters.

 

Thanks, I'll give it a try, I do want to work with hidden folders, it's just those unused card readers that were not there before Win 10.

Have a great week!

 

I used your reg file
but it does not hide empty drives from card readers

My usb hub has card reader slots which does not currently have any cards or drives in it

how to hide these drives?

 

Hello madmax, *Smile

To hide empty removable drives, see if the tutorial below may work best instead.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...er-folder.html

 

Well... unfortunately, it didn't work for me *Tongue

 

You can turn those unused drives off by disabling them in Windows Device Manager. Click Computer Management -> Device Manager. Then under Disk drives, right click on the drives you no longer wish to see in Explorer and select "Disable". The will remove them from the Explorer window. You can always go back and re-enable them later.

Here I have 4 USB drive slots for various card readers provided by HP that I never use so I disabled them.