Help with Registry needed?

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Paul Woodsford

Having upgraded my PC 2nd HD decided to reformat C an reinstall XP Home
SP1.( not been done since XP came out). Everything went OK, loaded all
updates fine. PC running like a dream, BUT my CD/DVD player and CD burner
are both recognised as CDrom's in My Computer. AHH, had this problem before
on another PC and used a VB script from Doug Knox's site to relable them.
In the Registry the correct DefaultLabels have been created but XP does not
use them to rename the 2 drives.

Anyone know how to fix this?

These are the new registry keys:-
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\I]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\I\DefaultLabel]
@="CD/DVD"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\J]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\J\DefaultLabel]
@="CD Burner"

Any help much appreciated.
 
S

Sir_George

Paul,

The accompanying text explains the process. I'm not sure when I read your
post what the "@=" represents.

HOW TO CHANGE ICON & RENAME A DRIVE LETTER IN WINDOWS XP

This tweak allows you to change the name and icon shown in Explorer for a
specific drive letter.

Open your registry and find the key below. If the key does not already exist
then create it.

Within the main key create a new sub-key with a single letter representing
the drive letter of the drive to be modified. (e.g. [HKEY...\DriveIcons\D])

Within the drive letter key create another sub-key called "DefaultIcon"
(e.g. [HKEY...\DriveIcons\D\DefaultIcon]) and set the "(Default)" value to
equal the fully qualified name of the icon file. If the file contains more
that one icon follow it with a comma and the zero-based index of the icon
(e.g. "c:\icons\myicons.dll,4").

Create another sub-key within the drive letter key called "DefaultLabel"
(e.g. [HKEY...\DriveIcons\D\DefaultLabel]) and set it's "(Default)" value to
equal the label for the drive letter (e.g. "My ZIP Drive").

For example: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Software
Microsoft
Windows
CurrentVersion
Explorer
DriveIcons
D
DefaultIcon
(Default) = c:\icons\myicons.dll,4
DefaultLabel
(Default) = My ZIP Drive

You may need to restart Windows for the change to take effect, or press F5
to refresh My Computer.

Note: The "DefaultLabel" value only works with Windows 2000 and higher.

--
Sir_George
For better access to newsgroups;
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp


Paul Woodsford said:
Having upgraded my PC 2nd HD decided to reformat C an reinstall XP Home
SP1.( not been done since XP came out). Everything went OK, loaded all
updates fine. PC running like a dream, BUT my CD/DVD player and CD burner
are both recognised as CDrom's in My Computer. AHH, had this problem before
on another PC and used a VB script from Doug Knox's site to relable them.
In the Registry the correct DefaultLabels have been created but XP does not
use them to rename the 2 drives.

Anyone know how to fix this?

These are the new registry keys:-
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons]
Click to expand...
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\I]
Click to expand...
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\I\DefaultLabel]
@="CD/DVD"
Click to expand...
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\J]
Click to expand...
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\J\DefaultLabel]
@="CD Burner"

Any help much appreciated.
Click to expand...
 
P

Paul Woodsford

The registry entry is as you stated Sir George, but when you do a backup of
the registry entry it inserts the "@" symbol.


Sir_George said:
Paul,

The accompanying text explains the process. I'm not sure when I read your
post what the "@=" represents.

HOW TO CHANGE ICON & RENAME A DRIVE LETTER IN WINDOWS XP

This tweak allows you to change the name and icon shown in Explorer for a
specific drive letter.

Open your registry and find the key below. If the key does not already exist
then create it.

Within the main key create a new sub-key with a single letter representing
the drive letter of the drive to be modified. (e.g. [HKEY...\DriveIcons\D])

Within the drive letter key create another sub-key called "DefaultIcon"
(e.g. [HKEY...\DriveIcons\D\DefaultIcon]) and set the "(Default)" value to
equal the fully qualified name of the icon file. If the file contains more
that one icon follow it with a comma and the zero-based index of the icon
(e.g. "c:\icons\myicons.dll,4").

Create another sub-key within the drive letter key called "DefaultLabel"
(e.g. [HKEY...\DriveIcons\D\DefaultLabel]) and set it's "(Default)" value to
equal the label for the drive letter (e.g. "My ZIP Drive").

For example: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Software
Microsoft
Windows
CurrentVersion
Explorer
DriveIcons
D
DefaultIcon
(Default) = c:\icons\myicons.dll,4
DefaultLabel
(Default) = My ZIP Drive

You may need to restart Windows for the change to take effect, or press F5
to refresh My Computer.

Note: The "DefaultLabel" value only works with Windows 2000 and higher.

--
Sir_George
For better access to newsgroups;
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp


Paul Woodsford said:
Having upgraded my PC 2nd HD decided to reformat C an reinstall XP Home
SP1.( not been done since XP came out). Everything went OK, loaded all
updates fine. PC running like a dream, BUT my CD/DVD player and CD burner
are both recognised as CDrom's in My Computer. AHH, had this problem before
on another PC and used a VB script from Doug Knox's site to relable them.
In the Registry the correct DefaultLabels have been created but XP does not
use them to rename the 2 drives.

Anyone know how to fix this?

These are the new registry keys:-
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
Click to expand...
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons]
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\I]
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\I\DefaultLabel]
@="CD/DVD"
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\J]
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\J\DefaultLabel]
@="CD Burner"

Any help much appreciated.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
A

Alex Nichol

Paul said:
The registry entry is as you stated Sir George, but when you do a backup of
the registry entry it inserts the "@" symbol.
Click to expand...

The line with @="whatever" is defining what is shown in the right pane
as Default. If you want something explicit for that - eg DVD Drive you
would have
@="DVD Drive"
 

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