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You are here: Home / Tech / How to access Administrative Shares on Windows 7 or Vista (C$)

How to access Administrative Shares on Windows 7 or Vista (C$)

May 9, 2007 by Paul Spoerry 5 Comments

I rarely use network shares on my computers. Ok, I have a few setup for the family to use if they need to copy something from one computer to another and a share for our network storage. Other than that I have always favored using admintrative shares. These don’t show up in network neighborhood, but can be accessed by using \computernameC$. The “$” at the end of a share name makes it invisible to network browsing, but otherwise it is a regular share. As the name implies, administrative shares are only available to those in the Local Administrators security group. This is turned off by default in Vista. Bummer, it’s so handy… I guess that’s part of the big security push. *shrug*

To enable administrative shares you gotta make a registry change. Click on the orb and in the search box type ‘regedit’ and hit enter. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem. Add a new DWORD called “LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy” and give it a value of 1. Reboot and yer done!

Filed Under: Tech, Vista Tweaks Tagged With: microsoft, microsoft windows, to, vista tweak, Vista Tweaks

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I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

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Comments

  1. harmo777 says

    June 5, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    hey I’ve used this post soooo many time lol

    thanks for the info

  2. Szilard Beke says

    February 24, 2012 at 2:42 am

    Hi!

    Thanks for this post 😀

  3. Paul Spoerry says

    February 24, 2012 at 7:47 am

    Welcome! Glad it helped!

  4. Yvo DRIES says

    April 1, 2012 at 11:26 am

    Shame on me ! It took me over 3 years to find this answer.

  5. KS says

    June 24, 2012 at 11:40 am

    I’ve used this saved posting several times in the past as well. Thanks! Just did it again on a 2008 R2 and tried if I can connect without rebooting. Yes, you can. So: no need for a reboot, just add that value and it works right-away.

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