Removing Administrative Shares in Windows 2008

After installation of Windows 2008 , it automaticly creates administrative shares that are aimed to used by administrator user groups, services and programs.

ADMIN$: This administrative share is used for remote administration purpose.
IPC$: This administrative share is used for communications between programs and sharing named pipes. It can not be deleted
NETLOGON: This administrative share is used by DCs
SYSVOL: This administrative share is used by DCs.
PRINT$: This administrative share is used for remote administration of prniters
FAX$: This administrative share is used for fax clients while sending faxes.

To remove administrative share follow the procedures aboce.

1) Open registry editor (Regedit)
2)Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
\LanmanServer\ParametersNote subkey.
3) Find or create AutoShareServer (DWORD 32 bit)) key and modify its value to 0
4)Restart your server.

Not: Bu ayar IPC$ paylaşımını veya diğer manuel olarak yarattığınız paylaşımları etkilemeyecektir.