Comments on: Enable Mapping to \\Hostname\C$ Share on Windows 7 or Vista

By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:10:06 +0000

This website is great! Loads of info. I have set a link on my own blog back to this site. Hope that is OK.

By: M.A.D.MikE

M.A.D.MikE — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:02 +0000

Just wanted to thank you, as i’ve been punching myself for a half an hour in frustration trying to do that on my freshly installed Windows 7

By: Oliver Treend

Oliver Treend — Sun, 24 May 2009 21:41:00 +0000

This is excellent! Thank you!
This has allowed me to access the C$ share on my Vista Home Premium machine.
But for some reason, it’s also enabled remote shutdown. So now I can use the DOS shutdown command from another Windows machine, or ‘net rpc shutdown -C “Remote Shutdown” -I -U ‘. I couldn’t do this before changing this registry key – so you’ve helped me fix both problems with just one simple change!
Thank you!

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:21:55 +0000

Actually, this is totally unnecessary. What you should do instead is go through the new ’sharing wizard’ and share some random folder. I just made a new one and shared it. After that, your c$ etc. folders are created automatically. You can delete the random folder afterwards, and the c$ folders remain shared – no registry hacking required.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:05:05 +0000

Excellent! I’ve been looking for this information for the past two days, since I got my new computer. I could not get network file access (\\hostname\c$) to work at all. Hopefully this will be the fix I’ve been looking for.

By: Richard Clark

Richard Clark — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:35:12 +0000

Excellent! Just what the doctor ordered. Thanks.