Move Drive Letter to Beginning of Drive Names in Windows Explorer

[skywalka]

Hi guys.

A while ago I saw a tweak to move drive letters to the beginning of drive names in Windows Explorer.  I could have sworn I saw it in the Donation Coder forum but I can't find it for the life of me.

Does anybody know how to do this?

Thanx 4 looking.

[tinjaw]

Here's your answer.

The computer description appears before the computer name in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330193

You want to set the value to 4.

[PhilB66]

You could do that with Tweak UI

[tinjaw]

Or you could use TweakUI ! 

[lanux128]

PhilB66: what version of TweakUI is that?

[PhilB66]

PhilB66: what version of TweakUI is that?

-lanux128 (October 29, 2007, 09:01 PM)

Tweak UI 2.10

[lanux128]

PhilB66: what version of TweakUI is that?

-lanux128 (October 29, 2007, 09:01 PM)

Tweak UI 2.10

-PhilB66 (October 29, 2007, 09:23 PM)

thanks, got it!

[Daleus]

For XP/2k, put this in a reg file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"ShowDriveLettersFirst"=dword:00000001


Save with the *.reg extension, dble click to run, answer yes to prompts, reboot to take effect.

[tinjaw]

"ShowDriveLettersFirst"=dword:00000001

-Daleus (October 30, 2007, 06:49 AM)

umm, not quite. That will only do it for remote drives. See my first post in this thread.

[Daleus]

"ShowDriveLettersFirst"=dword:00000001

-Daleus (October 30, 2007, 06:49 AM)

umm, not quite. That will only do it for remote drives. See my first post in this thread.

-tinjaw (October 30, 2007, 07:46 AM)

I'm not sure what you mean by "remote" drives, but it does the same thing in "My Computer" that PhilB66 shows in Tweak UI, earlier in the thread.  I have been using it with success for several years now where I work.

This will *not* affect how drive letters appear in the Windows Explorer *application*, if that is what you were looking for.

Note also that the MS article you point to, earlier in the thread, points to 2 reg keys (policies) different than the one which I suggest, so perhaps they both work.

[skywalka]

Sorry about my late reply.  I didn't receive email notifications of the replies.

You guys are the best.  I should have posted here sooner.  I Googled for days & couldn't turn up anything.

tinjaw, I tried your solution & it didn't work.

Daleus, I then tried your solution & it didn't work either.

So I tried TweakUI & that didn't work!!!!!

BUT I tried other settings in TweakUI & found that the GUI describes the wrong setting.  When I set TweakUI to "Never show drive letters" I in fact had the setting to place drive letters at the beginning of all my drives.

I looked in the registry & this is the key TweakUI created:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"ShowDriveLettersFirst"=dword:00000004

Thanx to all of you who helped.

[tinjaw]

tinjaw, I tried your solution & it didn't work.
[snip]
I looked in the registry & this is the key TweakUI created:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"ShowDriveLettersFirst"=dword:00000004

-skywalka (December 08, 2007, 02:50 PM)

That's what I said to do. Glad to see you got it working.

[skywalka]

Yeah but it didn't work with the value U supplied.

Thanx anyway.