driveletters

[chriske911]

I love the new explorer in vista with all the 'new' features
I have been trying out a lot of combinations tweaking the UI of
explorer to fit my needs
one of them was removing the driveletters (finally)
now I am looking for a way to open up a folder from the run dialog box
without using the drive letter
I use that way to open up hidden folders instead of showing them all in
explorer
anyone who knows how to do this?

thnx

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Um, if you remove the drive letter, then there is no root directory for the
folders/files on that drive. Without a root, there is no way to index or
catalog the files on the drive, so there is no means for the system to
locate them.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[chriske911]

Rick "Nutcase" Rogers used his keyboard to write :

Um, if you remove the drive letter, then there is no root directory for the
folders/files on that drive. Without a root, there is no way to index or
catalog the files on the drive, so there is no means for the system to locate
them.

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

it is just a GUI hack AFAIK
so the drive letters are still used or so I think
I did see that windows makes use of the "device\harddisk1\volume\....."
syntax more often to retrieve items
that's a good thing

now to get rid of the drive letters entirely would be awesome
something for the next release most likely ;-)
when they will be truly giving up on backward compatibility

I just wondered that if I do choose to see no more drive letter within
explorer ever again for as long as I live
and I eventually forgot all about them how would I address a certain
folder under the root of a hard disk or a partition named "whatever"

I'd say I would go to \..\whatever\folder\subfolder\and_so_on
but that didn't work, nor would any other combination I could think off
the funny thing is that you do get to see that there is some retrieval
of foldernames but then you get a error saying that windows could not
find that folder

thnx