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Drive Mapping Names in XP - I want to see the letters

  • 10-12-2004 1:09pm
    #1
    Capt'n Midnight
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    In 3.x / 9x and NT shared drives were mapped by letter eg X:

    In XP mapped drives are displayed as
    Sharename on 'Server Description (Servername)' (letter:)

    I want to have the letter first, then the Sharename, then maybe show the Servername and only if absolutley necessary show the server description.

    Or if not possible then I really want to remove the server description . And no removing it from the server is NOT an option as it contains useful info.

    Anyone got any ideas - this is really confusing for end users


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  • #2
    Nuttzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Nuttzz


    right click on the drive and select properties, change the label to the drive letter, its not pretty but it would do, it will give them E: ( E: ) for example


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Ok renamed drive and went looking through the reg. - it's not pretty

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\##192.168.0.1#D$]
    "BaseClass"="Drive"
    "_CommentFromDesktopINI"=""
    "_LabelFromDesktopINI"=""
    "_LabelFromReg"="D$ FixMe"

    I could use Reg.exe from reskit and some unicode util - but it ain't going to work in a logon script

    BTW: Mountpoints / Netsh / %windir%/system32/drivers/etc
    Is it me or are M$ using opensource in their TCPIP stack ?

    [edit] found this - most definitley not pretty
    http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBJ/tip4600/rh4600.htm
    When you map a network drive, My Computer shows:

    Windows 2000 share name on 'computer name' (DriveLetter:)
    Windows XP share name on 'computer description' (computer name) (DriveLetter:)
    It refers to two mad batch files that use reg.exe and I'm not going to bother as it's too much work - probably easier to manually rename all drive mappings on the network save the reg file and upload it for each user..

    RANT - why do they keep changing the user interface - I still reckon most admin tasks take an extra click or menu more every second version of windows /RANT


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