EnableDriveIcons

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In Brief

Help users by changing drive icons to reflect the drive letter.

Vitals

Posted:	3 Feb 2005
File Size:	532KB
License:	Free
Download:	/coolsolutions/tools/downloads/enabledriveicons.zip
Publisher:	Bryan Keadle

Disclaimer

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Details

Windows Explorer doesn't lend itself very well to identify your mapped drives. When user's have an explorer window open that looks like this:

Having them find a given drive letter, "select your H: drive", isn't as easy as it sounds.

But by giving explorer a little face-lift, their explorer windows can look like this:

Now isn't that better? Simply copy UPCASE.EXE and ENABLEDRIVEICONS.EXE to everyone's Windows directory:

copy f:\public\upcase.exe %windir% /y
copy f:\public\enabledriveicons.exe %windir% /y

Then just run EnableDriveIcons.exe once for each user (or just add to the machine startup).

That's cool!

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Reader Comments

• Very Well :))
• works for me thank!
• Cool! But if you don't want to change the icons (we want the CDRom drive icon to stay) but you do want the drive letter to list first in Explorer try setting the following registry key and reboot: [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer] "ShowDriveLettersFirst"=dword:00000004
• See http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/7415.html for similair info.
• This is a simple solution to a constant minor irritant... bravo!
• OK. But how do you revert to the previous state...?