<p>Using Windows Server 2003 in a multi-user environment (via Remote Desktop, using it as an application server), how to mount a (preferably encrypted) volume in a way, that won't show up on any other user's desktop?</p>

<p>Tried, and failed approaches:</p>

<ul>
<li><p>tweaking user rights -display of mounted volume can not be changed.</p></li>
<li><p>Bestcrypt / truecrypt. Both of them displays the volume for a local administrator</p></li>
</ul>

There's a key in the Registry that's used to hide mapped drives.
If you want to stop any combination of drives appearing in My Computer
Add the Binary Value of 'NoDrives' in the registry at
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer"
Here is the table of all the values (Note that you can add up values to hide multiple drives, also the value is binary type but must be entered in hexadecimal, so if you add up a few drives, get ready for a little hex math. )  :
```
```
A 1 00 00 00
B 2 00 00 00
C 4 00 00 00
D 8 00 00 00
E 16 00 00 00
F 32 00 00 00
G 64 00 00 00
H 128 00 00 00
I 00 1 00 00
J 00 2 00 00
K 00 4 00 00
L 00 8 00 00
M 00 16 00 00
N 00 32 00 00
O 00 64 00 00
P 00 128 00 00
Q 00 00 1 00
R 00 00 2 00
S 00 00 4 00
T 00 00 8 00
U 00 00 16 00
V 00 00 32 00
W 00 00 64 00
X 00 00 128 00
Y 00 00 00 1
Z 00 00 00 2
```
```