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Windows Explorer my network places displays details twice problem

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by tates, 2002/09/19.

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  1. 2002/09/19
    tates

    tates Inactive Thread Starter

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    Just moved to XP and cant stop XP Explorer in my network places displaying the 'computer description' long name along with the computer name in brackets () PLUS it then optionally displays the computer description again in a column to the right of this.

    I have all my Win98 and NT machines with short logical names and rather verbose descriptions so I would like to see a single column of these short names and sorted on these too just like all previous versions of Windows I have used. This is on XP Home and XP Pro even where you are likely to see lots of computers listed

    Do any of these Tweak tools do this ? Or a registry hack ? Best I can do is only turn off the suplementary column.

    Andy...
     
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    This particular annoyance where Win Explorer displays the description with the real name in parens after the description and puts this combination in the Name column started with Win2K.

    So you wind up with stupidity like

    Primary Domain File Server(filesvr) as the server name rather than just filesvr.

    So far I haven't found any way to stop it.

    And I can't get the NT4 version of explorer.exe to run on XP. Missing/incorrect ordinal.

    2K explorer.exe will run fine. But it has the same problem so no help there. And IE6 does the exact same thing if you use it to browse the local network.
     
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