Fix Local Disk (Q) Added by Office 2010 Beta

Introduction

When installing Microsoft Office 2010, you will be amazed that your system appears to have one new drive: Local disk (Q). This drive can make a user uncomfortable because it is useless and inaccessible. And after a few hours of surfing the internet, I feel it is interesting to successfully hide the useless drive.

The reason for this appearing is that Microsoft Office 2010 uses Click and Run version which applies the App-V technology. “Drive Q: comes from Click and Run version of Office 2010. This drive is used by the App-V technology which is used by the Click and Run version.”

• http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/appv/default.mspx
• http://blogs.technet.com/b/office2010/archive/2009/11/06/click-to-run-delivering-office-in-the-21st-century.aspx

There are 2 solutions to solve this:

1. If you already used TweakUI or you want an easy way to do, it is the best solution:
   1. Download TweakUI   
   2. Run TweakUI -> Drives
   3. Uncheck drive Q and Click Apply button at the bottom right
2. Using Registry
   1. Start Menu >> Run and type regedit and press Enter
   2. Navigate to the following path:

      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

      (If Explorer is not here, you can right click and select new key and enter Explorer to create key Explorer as image below.)

   3. Right click New >> DWORD (32-bits) value:

      

      • Value Name: NoDrives
      • Value Data (Decimal): 65536

      

   4. Restart your machine to apply changes and see your work.

History

• 28^th June, 2010: Initial version