Use the public folder of Vista system skillfully

In Windows Vista, it is convenient to make file sharing through public folders, especially when sharing multiple users with the same PC: any resources that are stored in a public folder, including documents, downloads, music, pictures, videos, etc. Can be used by other users on a colleague's PC and by a network user who has access to the public folder.
At the same time, user access to the contents of the public folder is very convenient, just open the resource manager and so on, you can directly find the shortcut to the public folder in the Favorites link.
But as we have said in the Windows Vista tutorial, public folder implementations are fairly "simple to share", and they cannot set different levels of access for different users, and cannot restrict users from sharing specific files in public folders.
Therefore, for security reasons, it is often recommended that you do not use public folders, but rather more detailed settings in the location where the files are saved to enjoy more securely.
Let resource manager no longer show public folder links
However, public folders cannot be really disabled in Windows Vista or deleted, that is, the "c:/users/public/" directory cannot be deleted, or it may affect the normal operation of Windows Vista.
So, even if you don't want to share through a public folder, you can only do it without copying anything into that directory, making it a "blank directory" in a sense, at least so that someone can't see your private file through a public folder.
In this way, the public folder links in the Explorer have no meaning to continue, and we can consider hiding or deleting them, not only to make the Explorer interface simpler, but also to avoid "misoperation."
Remove the public item from the Favorites link
The Favorites link in the left panel of the explorer is saved in the "%userprofile%/links/" directory. To remove the "public" item, we can
In the Explorer, browse to the "links" folder in the user directory, find the "common" shortcuts, and delete them;
Let resource manager no longer show public folder links
Enter directly in the Command line window:
Del%userprofile%/links/public.lnk
Note that even in Chinese Windows Vista, the shortcuts to "public" items are "Public.lnk" instead of "public. lnk." Do not be fooled by the Chinese character "public" displayed in the graphical interface.
Hide the public list in explorer
There are a lot of limitations in the way described above, the most important thing is that it works only for the current user, and if there are multiple users on the same computer, there will still be a "public" link in the Resource Manager when you log on to the system with another user account, unless you are doing something similar for all users. (www.3lian.com)
If you want "one-step" to let all users in the system log on without seeing a "public" link in the Explorer, you can use the following method:
In the Start menu, enter "regedit" in the Search box to open Registry Editor. Of course, this is an operation that triggers UAC and needs to be confirmed. Locate the following registry branch:
Hkey_local_machine/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion
/explorer/desktop/namespace/
Right-click in the left panel and choose Delete. If you are using 64-bit Windows Vista (x64), the corresponding registry key is:
Hkey_local_machine/software/wow6432node/microsoft/windows
/currentversion/explorer/desktop/namespace/
This way, the link to the public folder will no longer appear in the explorer.