Windows 7: Disable Homegroups From Windows Explorer

Disable Homegroups from the Windows explorer (Windows 7) works as follows:

• Disable Homegroups
• Open Windows explorer.
• Right click on Libraries.
• Select "Change HomeGroup" settings.
• Click on "Leave the Homegroup", then confirm the selection.
• Click on "Finish".


• In the Windows Services, seach the "Homegroup Listener Service" and "Homegroup Provider Service".
• Stop both services.
• Disable both services.

A reboot of Windows might be necessary.

Disable Auto-Eject Behavior

To disable the auto eject behavior of disk drive (when clicking on the drive in the Windows explorer), you can disable the built-in CD burning settings in Windows by adding/modifying the following registry entry:

• [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoCDBurning"=dword:00000001 

To take effect, you have to log off and then log in again.

Remove low disk space warning

On both Windows Vista and Windows 7 you can remove the rather annoying "Low Disk Space Warning" by modifying the Windows registry (adding a new registry key).

• Start --> Run --> Regedit --> OK
• Now navigate to the following location:
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
• Right click on the blank area of the right pane of the registry editor and create a new DWORD value by selecting "New --> DWORD Value".
• Name this newly created DWORD Value "NoLowDiscSpaceChecks"
• Double-click on the new DWORD and assign it the value 1.
• Close the registry editor and reboot Windows.

P.S.: Apparently this didn't work at all ... have to reevaluate a different solution.