Remove windows 7 CD/DVD-ROM automatic hidden shares ?

Hello,

I like things to be shaded only when I want to. So I was always removing
automatic shares using these instructions:

"To remove administrative shares without letting Win2K recreate them every
time you reboot the system, you need to edit the registry. Start regedit and
go to the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\lanmanserver\parameters
subkey. From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD Value to create the new values
AutoShareServer and AutoShareWks; set each value's data to 0 (i.e., false).
Next, go to each drive, right-click, and select Sharing. Then, select Do not
share this folder. Then restart server service."

This works on windows 7 too (for disk drive and admin shares). The problem
is that CD/DVD devices are also shared as hidden shares in windows 7, and
workaround above doesn't disable these.

How do I disable automatic hidden CD/DVD shares in windows 7 ?

thanks
Vilius

Vilius Mockûnas wrote:
> I like things to be shaded only when I want to. So I was always
> removing automatic shares using these instructions:
>
> "To remove administrative shares without letting Win2K recreate
> them every time you reboot the system, you need to edit the
> registry. Start regedit and go to the
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\lanmanserver\parameters
> subkey. From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD Value to create the
> new values AutoShareServer and AutoShareWks; set each value's data
> to 0 (i.e., false). Next, go to each drive, right-click, and select
> Sharing. Then, select Do not share this folder. Then restart server
> service."
> This works on windows 7 too (for disk drive and admin shares). The
> problem is that CD/DVD devices are also shared as hidden shares in
> windows 7, and workaround above doesn't disable these.
>
> How do I disable automatic hidden CD/DVD shares in windows 7 ?

Isn't it easier to just not allow any exceptions in your Windows Firewall?
No mucking around in any registry settings, etc. Simple, works great.

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