Make your Vista Computer invisible in a network

Posted on Aug 21, 2008

This short tutorial will tell you how you can hide your Computer running Windows Vista from being shown in a network to other computers connected to the same network. Suppose you are connected to a network of many computers then this could be helpful in order to prevent others from being accidentally connecting to your computer as it happens sometimes while browsing the network.


Here's how you can do this>>>

• Click on Start button, type regedit in the search box and hit Enter
• Inside the Registry Editor navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
• Right-click on Parameters, click on New >>select DWORD (32-bit) value >>type hidden and hit Enter

• Now double-click on hidden and select Modify.
• Type 1 in the Value data field and hit Enter
  
• Close the Registry Editor and reboot your system for the changes to take effect.
• Now to check if the tweak worked or not click on Start button, type cmd and hit Enter.
• In the cmd prompt, type Net Config Server and hit Enter
• On moving down you will see "Server hidden" and it's status is set to "Yes" which means now your computer is hidden in the network.