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By default your windows XP machine shows the Printers and Faxes share along with the Scheduled Tasks folder. You can make use of the scheduled tasks folder like this or use a remote printer share to quickly install a remote printer.

Some people like this, most people don't use it and a few people REALLY hate it. So here is a quick how-to on peacing it out:

To hide the Scheduled Tasks from the network share view, follow these steps:

• Click Start, Run and type REGEDIT
• Navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \RemoteComputer \ NameSpace

• Backup the key by exporting it to a .REG file. (You need this to revert back!)
  
• To remove Scheduled Tasks, delete the following key:

{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

• To remove the Printers folder, delete the following key:

{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}

• Close Registry Editor.

By deleting one key or the other you are removing the folders from the network view and not disabling printing/scheduling in any which way. To restore the shares after removing them import the .REG file you saved in the third step above.

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