How-to enable the administrative shares in Windows Vista

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In Microsoft effort to tighten Windows security, the administrative shares as we used to know them (C$, IPC$ or Admin$) are not visible by default…
Hopefully, here again, there is an easy trick:

  • Open the registry editor (Start > Search > Regedit – right click, run as Administrator)
  • Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciessystem
  • Add DWORD Value LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy set to 1
  • Reboot.

Now you can deploy Kaspersky Antivirus on Vista without taking that much risk.

Namaste.