Remove Windows 7 Public folder Libraries for good!

[Guest Johncouzins]

Hi, I am really shocked that I cannot find a decent answer already about this anywhere on the net.

 

I am just setting up roaming profiles and folder redirection for Windows 7. I am linking the Document, Music, Pictures and Video back to a server. Under the libraries in explorer it shows you a concatenation of both the server and the public folders...but I don’t want this. I just want to users to ONLY be able to see the server location.

 

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-CA/w7itproinstall/thread/5d9e9a68-856e-4a5f-a6f6-3144eccf6fa3

 

This Technet article above simply hides the public folder using the ATTRIB command but does not remove the public folder from the library.

 

You can remove it manually I know, but is there really no way to script this or a group policy that I can use?

 

 

 

JC

 

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