Comments on: Remove ‘my sharing folders’ from explorer

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:48:31 +0000

Unfortunately, none of the above worked for me. The “my sharing folders” must have been created in some other way on my system.

Tweak Ui only deleted it out of My Computer but left it in Explorer. Unregistering the dll didn’t work nor did renaming the dll file. What finally got rid of the annoying piece of Sh!!! was to delete the following registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{FC9FB64A-1EB2-4CCF-AF5E-1A497A9B5C2D}]

@=”Messenger Sharing Folders”

I hope this relieves someone else’s frustration if none of the above works!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:01:42 +0000

For this to work on Vista, you must open Command Line, type “cd C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\” (cd = change directory) and then type the normal command from there, seems like Vista has some sort of problem with using relative paths, one step foward, two steps back!

By: hsmit

hsmit — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:18:30 +0000

this one helped me a lot:

http://computer-know-how.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-remove-my-sharing-folder-windows.html

By: zlot

zlot — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:22:46 +0000

All this info is good and correct FOR OLDER VERSIONS. But look at what’s going on here, and you’ll see that all you have to do is make sure the location if the fsshext file is correct and the name is correct. SO FIND THE FILE! In the latest version I used the statement:
regsvr32 -u C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\fsshext.8.5.1302.1018.dll”
I see there is a set of quotes missing! But this worked….just realize that everything past the regsvr32 -u is nothing more than the location of this dll file.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:41:41 +0000

Worked like a charm, THANK YOU!

Just make sure the fsshext.8.0.0xxx.00.dll numbers match that of the .DLL file located in C/Program Files/MSN Messenger

For example, mine happened to be fsshext.8.1.0178.00.dll

Good Luck!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:35:06 +0000

Have also tried with A-Patch now – same result. Is there any other solution other than mixing with user/system rights?

By: Selder

Selder — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:23:31 +0000

No, system restore will never revert to a previous system state on its own.

Hm. Strange things, that new-shortcut trick worked with previous versions. There is no new option in the Live Messenger options to enable or disable those pesky mt sharing folders?

Or otherwise (but not advisable) change the registrt value to something “not working”, and then play with the security on that key, so that the system account doesn’t have any rights to it.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:07:47 +0000

Already tried that one, but MSN keeps recreating a new shortcut as it recreates the key in the registry.
Hmm, could it have something to do with System Restore maybe?

By: Selder

Selder — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:01:26 +0000

Delete the shortcut you are using to start MSN Live Messenger, and create a new one – browse to the EXE and right click to “create shortcut”.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:34:03 +0000

I ran the command for the latest version (8.5.1302.1018), but now, everytime I start MSN, it reconfigures/reinstalls the missing key in registry and ‘My Sharing Folders’ keeps coming back. What to do?