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This is a great trick you can play on your friends. To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer.

1.Go to start->run.Type regedit.Now go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

2.Now right click in the right pane

3.create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives (it is case sensitive).

4.Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .

5.Now restart your computer.

6.So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown(all gone...).

7.To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item that you created.

8.Again restart your computer.

9.You can now see all the drives again. Magic........lol....

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Download Bootvis from www.microsoft.com and run it the next time you boot. Do a 'Trace'
If it shows a very long 'HDD init' time of minutes rather than seconds then this is how to fix it.

This example assumes you have 1 Hard drive on your primary IDE channel and a DVD-ROM(or CD)
and CD-R on your two secondary IDE channels.

Go to start > right click on my computer > click properties. Click Hardware > Device Manager.

Go to IDE/ATAPI Controllers. Select primary channel. Right click properties. Click the Advance settings tab. Then on the device (0 or 1)that does not have 'device type' greyed out select 'disable' instead of 'autodetect'. This should stop windows trying to find a drive that isn't there.

If you have your IDE channels set up differently simply repat the above for the secondary IDE channel settings.