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That regisry edit just removes the administrative hidden share. It will still allow you to share any other directories however you would like.

As far as the workgroup goes, By default windows uses the name "workgroup" as the first workgroup name unless you specify otherwise. Most people know this and look for that workgroup. But Anyone can browse the network and look for shared workgroups, but they will not be able to join them unless they have an account on that computer. But most people run password cracking programs trying to get in with the adminstrator account.

As a rule of thumb, you should always disable the Administrator account and make another account that has admin access but give it a name that you will remember. Because the first thing that hackers try to hack is the Administrator account. If you leave it enabled, they are already know the administrator account name and are half way through breaking in, now they just need to get the password.

If it's disabled, they can try all day long and will never get in with the admin account.

I see thousands of attempts of people trying to break into my FTP server daily and they are all using "Administrator" as a user name and then just have a program trying different passwords. They never get in because Admin is disabled. I have another account with admin rights with a name that I know.


Also, I don't know if your drive is formatted Fat32 or NTFS. But NTFS is much more secure and you can assign file permissions to each directory and/or file. This way, only the person who you assigned permissions to, can access that file/folder.