How To Remove "My Sharing Folders" From My Computer

With Windows Live Messenger (v8) installed you'll have this annoying "My Sharing Folders" icon in your My Computer.
Of course microsoft gives no option to remove this so here's the method I found on google:

Method 1

Click Start, Run and type:
regsvr32 /u "%programfiles%\MSN Messenger\fsshext.8.0.0792.00.dll"
Press Enter.
Note that the above file name may vary depending upon the version and build number for Windows Live Messenger. Therefore, it's better to see if the above file (fsshext.8.0.0792.00.dll) exists. For example, in build 0787, the file name may be fsshext.8.0.0787.00.dll.

Method 2

• Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
• Navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ MyComputer \ NameSpace \ {FC9FB64A-1EB2-4CCF-AF5E-1A497A9B5C2D}

• Select the {FC9FB64A-1EB2-4CCF-AF5E-1A497A9B5C2D} key and delete it.
• Close Regedit.exe

Source: http://www.winhelponline.com/article...-Computer.html

Thanks Ross , still had to right click then delete to remove icon in My Documents after running the script .

It's not in my My Documents :blink:
edit: Ah, it's a shortcut.
Will add that to the guide.

You could just goto My Computer within TweakUI (if it's installed)

thankx boss

thanks for making this

thank you. I hate when programs add shit to my "my documents" or "my computer" folder!!

preciate it man doesnt bother me 2 much but i dont mind not having it

thanks for the great guide

nice guide, great job!

thanks alot. great job. appreciate it. :D

thanks, been wondering how to get rid of this!

Thanks, Rossco.

Thanks for the nice guide.

Thanks man =) Keep it up

thanx man! everything might be easier though if M$ added an option to remove that. i just don't get how desperate M$ for this kind of things. LOL!

when i remove it, after i run messenger its showed again what am i suppost to do now?

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Originally Posted by Elladara

when i remove it, after i run messenger its showed again what am i suppost to do now?

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There have so many updates to MSN Messenger (Live) that this fix no longer works, I think. Just Google, "remove my sharing folder" and you'll get plenty of results in the form of registry fixes. Just look for one that's been posted recently. :)

thanks for the guide

simple guide

Great job coming with this

Keep up the good work !

thanks buddy for the guide

Nice one! I've been looking for this :)

Thx, very useful :)

Thanks mate,nice guide!

Ty, nice guide!

thank you. very easy and good guide !

great job! and i did patch to did this in sec/s