Hide My Network Places from Windows Explorer

[Deeptimoy]

hi when i am open Windows Explorer i can see the My Network Places icon in the folder pane. Somehow i want to remove this icon from Windows Explorer view. But, when i delete the icon and open again Windows Explorer creates that again. so please any one tell me is it possible to delete that icon. please tell me how can i do this. thank you.

[Gusgr8]

you can change you My Network Places setting from explorer check this

*Open Registry Editor and navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ CLSID \ {208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
\ ShellFolder

*take Backup of key by exporting it to a REG file.
*In the right-pane, create a new REG_DWORD value named Attributes
*Double-click Attributes and set 20180000 as the Value data

If you want to undo the changes, delete the Attributes value.

[Deeptimoy]

Please can you tell me how can i able to take Backup of key by exporting it to a REG file.