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*Hide contents of the control panel:

1) Search the drive you installed windows on for *.cpl
2) Copy one of those files for instance sysdm.cpl
3) paste the file to the location you wish for example c:
4) Remove the file you copy/pasted in the last step from its' initial location (by default it
Is located in c:\windows\system\ or c:\winnt\system32\)
5) Done

Note: if you want to change things back to normal simply copy/paste the file to where it was stored by default ( c:\windows\system\ or c:\winnt\system32\)

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*Creating virtual drives:

1)Search your root drive(where windows was installed) for subst.exe

Note:subst is a hidden command that most windows users are not aware of,It substitutes a folder path as a virtual drive!

for instance it substitutes c:\mydocuments\security as k:

2)This is the help provided by microsoft for this command:


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Associates a path with a drive letter.

SUBST [drive1: [drive2:]path]
SUBST drive1: /D

drive1: Specifies a virtual drive to which you want to assign a path
[drive2:] path Specifies a physical drive and path you want to assign to
a virtual drive.
/D Deletes a substituted (virtual) drive.

Type SUBST with no parameters to display a list of current virtual drives.

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3)Example:

c:\subst w: e:\security\
this adds w: to the "MYCOMPUTER" folder

c:\subst w: /d
This removes the virtual drive w

4)

Note:If you specify a letter for the virtual drive that is already used the command will
exit with an error:

c:\subst c: e:\security\
Invalid parameter - C:

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