Display File with Drive Letter First

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By Hamish Speirs

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PROBLEM: Windows Explorer and application file dialog drop-down boxes display mapped drives as <Drive Description> <Drive Letter> - (eg Hamish on MyServer\Data\Homedirs H:). This is often a problem with narrow fixed-width dialog boxes. A much easier way to see it would be <Drive Letter> <Drive Description> (eg H: Hamish on MyServer\Data\HomeDirs)

SOLUTION: In regedit goto: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer, edit or create the DWORD value "ShowDriveLettersFirst" and set it to the desired value: (4 for the Drive letter before Description)

• 0 = Default display (drive letters after description)
• 1 = Network drive letters first, Local drive letters after
• 2 = Descriptions only, no drive letters displayed
• 4 = Drive letters before description

If you have any questions you may contact Hamish at Hamish@haitch.net

Reader Comments

• This Rocks!!!!!
• Finally, someone comes up with a solution to one of the most annoying changes MS made between Win9x and later versions! Thank you, Hamish!
• purrrfect
• Great tweak!

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