How to hide the full path for mapped drive in Windows Explorer

How to hide the full path for mapped drive in Windows Explorer (VBScript)

Introduction

This VBScript shows how to hide the full path for mapped drive in Windows Explorer.

Scenarios

This script needs to hide the full path of the mapped drive. In a network environment, administrator wants to map a drive, but don't want to show the directory for security.

Script

Step 1: Double click the script and it will hidden the mapped network drives' full path.

Here are some code snippets for your references.

VBS

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For Each objItem in colItems 
    sDrive =  objItem.Name 
    oShell.NameSpace(sDrive).Self.Name = "MappedDrive"
    WScript.StdOut.WriteLine "Hidden " & objItem.Name & "(" & objItem.ProviderName & ") successfully"
Next

For Each objItem in colItems 
    sDrive =  objItem.Name 
    oShell.NameSpace(sDrive).Self.Name = "MappedDrive"
    WScript.StdOut.WriteLine "Hidden " & objItem.Name & "(" & objItem.ProviderName & ") successfully"
Next

Prerequisite

Windows Server 2008 or higher version

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