Drive name appears before drive letter

[Guest]

Okay this may seem to be a simple question but I can't find anything on it
anywhere. In windows explorer for each drive I get a drive icon, then a name
such as HP Pavilion, then the drive letter in parenthesis (C). Before I had
the drive icon, then the drive letter then the name, I think - all I remember
for sure is that the drive name came last. And now for some reason when I
put a disk in the CD or DVD drives the volume name becomes truncated to no
more than 15 letters, it used to go whatever length I had named it. The only
updates I've done are the latest from Microsoft update. Don't know if that
affected it or not since I didn't pay that close attention to when the naming
thing started, I just slap in a DVD and play it. Oh yeah, I did do one other
update recently it was from HP to update to Sonic's Record Now version 7.
Also every system restore I've tried fails just says it was unable to
complete the restore. Any help appreciated. I have SP2 installed and have
had since it came out with no problems.

 

[Jim Hill]

I don't know how to do this without tweakui, but with it it's easy. The
switch is under My Computer/Drive Letters.

Get tweakui at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
and that'll do ya.

I'd be glad to learn a non-tweakui, non-regedit route to this.

hth,
Jim

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Show Drive Letters First

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer
Value Name: ShowDriveLettersFirst
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value Data:
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 for all drives

From these and other sources...

Show the Drive Letters first
http://www.totalxp.com/drivelettersfirst.htm

How to show drive letters first in My Computer
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/showdrivelettersfirst.htm
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TweakUI
[+] My Computer
Drive letters

Drive letters
[[This allows specifying how the letters are displayed in “My Computer”.
The options are:

• Show all drive letters after the label
• Show all drive letters before the label
• Show network drive letters before the label and show local drive letters
after the label
• Never show drive letters ]]

However, TweakUI's option order is messed up...
From Keith Miller Mar 17 2004
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...h+author:miller&rnum=1&hl=en#973b204671b52a97

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Guest]

Thanks to both Wes & Jim. I should have known since I used TweakUI with 98,
just never really checked it out for XP. And I see what you mean about the
order being messed up. I had to use the "never show drive letters" option to
get what I wanted. I'll probably have more questions because I still don't
know why I can't get longer volume labels, actually why can't I burn a DVD
with longer volume labels. Anyhow good to know how to make the changes in
the registry so I don't have to depend on TweakUI. Like I tell my brother
when he asks "how do you do that?" - there's at least 3 ways to accomplish
anything in Windows.

Show Drive Letters First

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer
Value Name: ShowDriveLettersFirst
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value Data:
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 for all drives

From these and other sources...

Show the Drive Letters first
http://www.totalxp.com/drivelettersfirst.htm

How to show drive letters first in My Computer
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/showdrivelettersfirst.htm
-----

TweakUI
[+] My Computer
Drive letters

Drive letters
[[This allows specifying how the letters are displayed in “My Computerâ€.
The options are:

• Show all drive letters after the label
• Show all drive letters before the label
• Show network drive letters before the label and show local drive letters
after the label
• Never show drive letters ]]

However, TweakUI's option order is messed up...
From Keith Miller Mar 17 2004
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...h+author:miller&rnum=1&hl=en#973b204671b52a97

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Okay this may seem to be a simple question but I can't find anything on it
anywhere. In windows explorer for each drive I get a drive icon, then a
name such as HP Pavilion, then the drive letter in parenthesis (C).
Before I had the drive icon, then the drive letter then the name, I think
- all I remember for sure is that the drive name came last. And now for
some reason when I put a disk in the CD or DVD drives the volume name
becomes truncated to no more than 15 letters, it used to go whatever
length I had named it. The only updates I've done are the latest from
Microsoft update. Don't know if that affected it or not since I didn't
pay that close attention to when the naming thing started, I just slap in
a DVD and play it. Oh yeah, I did do one other update recently it was
from HP to update to Sonic's Record Now version 7. Also every system
restore I've tried fails just says it was unable to complete the restore.
Any help appreciated. I have SP2 installed and have had since it came
out with no problems.

 

[Stan Brown]

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:25:45 -0800 from Jim Hill

I don't know how to do this without tweakui, but with it it's easy. The
switch is under My Computer/Drive Letters.

Unfortunately, that's not effective. This is a per-user setting, but
(as it often does) TweakUI doesn't present it unless you're an
administrative user.

So you can _set_ it as an admin user, but it won't propagate to
limited users. And you can't set it as a limited user.

I'd be glad to learn a non-tweakui, non-regedit route to this.

Indeed yes, since that would seem to be the _only_ route.

 

[Stan Brown]

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:45:41 -0700 from Wesley Vogel <123WVogel955
@comcast.net>:

How to show drive letters first in My Computer
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/showdrivelettersfirst.htm

Thanks! This did the trick.

You have to log out and log in for it to become effective, but it's
not necessary to reboot.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

I always thought that my Cd burning software was designed for DOS, it has
the 8.3 name limitation. ;-)

Have a look at this...
About File Systems and File Names
http://www.roxio.com/en/support/cdr/filesystems.html

Like I tell my brother when he asks "how do you do that?" -
there's at least 3 ways to accomplish anything in Windows.

LOL

Some good info here...

Tweak UI for Windows XP Guide
http://www.winxpsolution.com/Tweakuixppro.aspx

TweakUI for Windows XP - Tips
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/twktips.htm

TweakUI PowerTips
http://weblogs.asp.net/jkey/archive/2003/08/01/22303.aspx

TweakUI Registry Settings here...

Microsoft® Windows® XP Registry Guide
Chapter 5: Mapping Tweak UI
http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/6232.asp

All of Ch 5 is included!!

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Thanks to both Wes & Jim. I should have known since I used TweakUI with
98, just never really checked it out for XP. And I see what you mean
about the order being messed up. I had to use the "never show drive
letters" option to get what I wanted. I'll probably have more questions
because I still don't know why I can't get longer volume labels, actually
why can't I burn a DVD with longer volume labels. Anyhow good to know
how to make the changes in the registry so I don't have to depend on
TweakUI. Like I tell my brother when he asks "how do you do that?" -
there's at least 3 ways to accomplish anything in Windows.

Show Drive Letters First

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer
Value Name: ShowDriveLettersFirst
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value Data:
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 for all drives

From these and other sources...

Show the Drive Letters first
http://www.totalxp.com/drivelettersfirst.htm

How to show drive letters first in My Computer
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/showdrivelettersfirst.htm
-----

TweakUI
[+] My Computer
Drive letters

Drive letters
[[This allows specifying how the letters are displayed in “My
Computerâ€. The options are:

• Show all drive letters after the label
• Show all drive letters before the label
• Show network drive letters before the label and show local drive
letters after the label
• Never show drive letters ]]

However, TweakUI's option order is messed up...
From Keith Miller Mar 17 2004
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...h+author:miller&rnum=1&hl=en#973b204671b52a97

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

Okay this may seem to be a simple question but I can't find anything on
it anywhere. In windows explorer for each drive I get a drive icon,
then a name such as HP Pavilion, then the drive letter in parenthesis
(C). Before I had the drive icon, then the drive letter then the name,
I think - all I remember for sure is that the drive name came last.
And now for some reason when I put a disk in the CD or DVD drives the
volume name becomes truncated to no more than 15 letters, it used to go
whatever length I had named it. The only updates I've done are the
latest from Microsoft update. Don't know if that affected it or not
since I didn't pay that close attention to when the naming thing
started, I just slap in a DVD and play it. Oh yeah, I did do one other
update recently it was from HP to update to Sonic's Record Now version
7. Also every system restore I've tried fails just says it was unable
to complete the restore. Any help appreciated. I have SP2 installed
and have had since it came out with no problems.

 

[Jim Hill]

TweakUI doesn't present it unless you're an administrative user
[...] it won't propagate to limited users. And you can't set it
as a limited user.

Thanks to you both,
Jim

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Hi Stan,

Ramesh comes through again. ;-)

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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Stan Brown]

Wed, 8 Mar 2006 09:31:44 -0700 from Wesley Vogel <123WVogel955
@comcast.net>:

Hi Stan,

Ramesh comes through again. ;-)

Absolutely! It's a great resource:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/index.html

 

[Stan Brown]

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:48:57 -0700 from Wesley Vogel <123WVogel955
@comcast.net>:

TweakUI PowerTips
http://weblogs.asp.net/jkey/archive/2003/08/01/22303.aspx

Thanks for the other links, especially for
<http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/6232.asp> "Mapping
TweakUI" [to the REgistry].

FYI, the 'weblogs' one has a number of good tips, but not about
TweakUI. It mentions TweakUI only to link to Microsoft's download
page.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

FYI, the 'weblogs' one has a number of good tips, but not about

TweakUI.

Actually, Stan, all of those tips are part of TweakUI.

TweakUI
[+] About
Tips

You can cycle through the tips with the Next Tip and Previous Tip buttons.
But, if you click the Save Tips button, you get Tweak UI Tips.txt which you
can save wherever, with all of the tips in a Notepad file.

That was where I discovered this tip...

[[Hold down the shift key when switching to thumbnail view to hide the file
names. Do it again to bring them back.]]

About
Tips
[[This gives several tips in Windows XP plus tips how to get things done
faster.]]
from...
TweakUI
http://www.winxpsolution.com/Tweakuixppro.aspx

I just added that to me canned TweakUI post. ;-)

Here's another tip.

You can also add TweakUI to the Control Panel with
xp_AddTweakUItoControlPanel.vbs from
here...
1. Add XP TweakUI Icon to the Control Panel
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Adds...
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:48:57 -0700 from Wesley Vogel <123WVogel955
@comcast.net>:

TweakUI PowerTips
http://weblogs.asp.net/jkey/archive/2003/08/01/22303.aspx

Thanks for the other links, especially for
<http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/6232.asp> "Mapping
TweakUI" [to the REgistry].

FYI, the 'weblogs' one has a number of good tips, but not about
TweakUI. It mentions TweakUI only to link to Microsoft's download
page.

 

[Stan Brown]

Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:25:58 -0700 from Wesley Vogel <123WVogel955
@comcast.net>:

Actually, Stan, all of those tips are part of TweakUI.

So the Web page is just a duplicate of text in TweakUI?

Putting aside questions of legality, what's the usefulness? I must be
missing something.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

I like the picture of the Fonz. ;-) Ehhh!!

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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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