My Computer - Detail View - Drive letter Left

Downloaded / installed Nero 6 Ultra latest updates, loaded Nero ShowTime (DVD Player). Previous version caused problems, hoping corrected in this update. 15 minutes into movie (full screen) I lost all keyboard control to computer. No combinations of keys regained control of computer (movie continued to play fine). With no other option, I held "Power On" button in for a forced power down. Powered back up, no apparent problems. I brought up "My Computer" (Detail view) and all drive letters are to the right of the drive phrase. Example ..
3½ Floppy (A: )
Local Disk (C: )
CD-RW Drive (D: )
I prefer my normal settings, with drive letter to "Left ".
I don't have a clue where to find this settings.
Any suggestions Thanks.

 

Fixed the problem ... TweakUI - XP 2.10
Under "My Computer/Drive Letters" settings, it was ticked for "Display Right of label ". I enabled "Display Left of Label ", applied, rebooted. It only changed the Y: drive (for HP network printer / memory card reader). So then I chose "Display NO Drive Letters" hoping to clear things out. After reboot, check to see if all drive letters were not displaying .. but drive letters are now correctly position to 'Left of label ". So I will leave well enough alone.
If not asking to much, could someone check their TweakUI view. Does the "ticked phrase" correctly match your drive letter / label position?

 

Arie
Thanks for the feed back. Although TweakUI is NOT agreeing with my view, the display has continued to be correct after 3 reboots.

Christer
This seems to be an elusive problem, could find no hits on Google.

 

You're right Christer, the Key gets added if you opt for something different than the standard - drive letter to the right.

The new key is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShowDriveLettersFirst: 0x00000001

Which was created when I opted for the drive letter to display first. When I asked for it to return to the default position (right), it returned to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShowDriveLettersFirst: 0x00000000

but the Key remained. I'll roll back with GoBack to see if it was there prior to the experiment.

 

Update: No, the key did not exist previous to the use of TweakUI and when the process was reversed, using TweakUI again, the key was left but the value was 0 (zero). Rolling back with GoBack dumped the Key entirely so that is the default state obviously.

 

Hi Dennis,

On both computers, desktop with SP1, laptop with SP2, the selections and letter positions are:

1. Show all drive letters after the label ... letters appear after.

2. Show all drive letters before the label ... letters appear after.

3. Show network drive letters before the label, and show local drive letters after the label ... NO letters appear.

4. Never show drive letters ... letters appear before (where I want them).​

 

No, that's done by yet another Key. It's easiest done by using the GUI via View > Arrange Icons By > (pick your preference).

You are correct - DM sorts by using the ARC drive designation so you have no control over that. The ARC designation is a constant.

Somewhat off topic, you may not be aware that you can create the proper Registry Key and Dword value to hide any drive/drives you choose quite easily. More Here.

 

surferdude2
Thank you for all the registry information and it's relationship to TweakUI / drive letter / label views.

JSS3rd
Now that's interesting. All 4 of my TweakUI options respond the same as yours (tested all 4 views). I currently have #4 option ticked, to achieve option #2 condition (Show all drive letters before the label).
Just throwing a dart into the wind ... per TweakUI ... Do you have both 1.33 and 2.10 installed (I do)? Should not interfere, since 1.33 does NOT offer drive label option. But something seems to be scrambling our option/views.

 

Hi Dennis,

Yes, I do have both installed, as each offers options that the other doesn't, and they seem to co-exist nicely together. My understanding is that the drive lettering problem lies with Tweak 2.10, itself. Can't remember if I read about it on this BBS or another, but it existed in the previous version (2.01) also.

 

Good old Kellys-Korner has all 4x Show Drive Letter / Label views as clickable download / Reg entires.
See Kelly's Line# 341 and 342 (Left and Right columns).

 

I noticed that Kelly's registry files had the proper heading line for merging a file into XP's registry, but a lot of registry files are still written for the Win9x family.

To change one of the earlier ones into a form that XP can handle, open the file in a text editor and change the initial line from REGEDIT4 to Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00.

It's been a while since I worked with Win9x, but I seem to remember that 9x will merge version 5 registry files without a problem. Can anyone confirm that?

 

Jim, It is my understanding that XP can handle Regedit4 so if you need some curative .reg file that will cross all platforms, I believe Regedit4 would be the selection. I'll have to check to verify that. I have seen that somewhere although I don't recall seeing that Win9x couldn't handle Regedit5 format. I assume that's the case but have no proof yet.

I'll do some experimenting on that and post the results later.

 

Hi Dude,

I was playing with a regedit4 file this afternoon (a RegSeeker backup file, to be exact), and XP wouldn't merge it. Once I changed the header line, though, XP merged it into the registry without a hiccup.

You'd think that XP would be backwards compatible with regedit4 *.reg files, but apparently not. Something to do with unicode (whatever that means), as I recall, even though *.reg files are simple text files.

EDIT: I found the answer to my earlier question, and I was wrong, apparently. Regedit 5, which comes with XP generates Unicode text files. (Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language.) To share Win2000/XP registry data with a system running 95/98/Me or NT, the header line must be changed to Regedit4.

Conversely, a *.reg file exported by or written for the version 4 registry editor must have the header line changed to Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 to be read by the version 5 editor.