How to put the drive letter to the left of the name in My Computer

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David Allen

Open My Computer
Notice how in a detail list it will say
Local Disk (C:)
shared on 'Server' (F:)

Well we just got some new systems from corporate and its backwards. It
shows up as
(C:) Local Disk
(F:) shared on 'Server'

How did they do that?
 
David,

To display drive-letters first (and then followed by the drive description),
this registry edit is required:

Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
Navigate to the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Explorer

In the right-pane, create a DWORD value named "ShowDriveLettersFirst"
Double-click "ShowDriveLettersFirst" and set its data to 4
Close Regedit.exe

You may also use TweakUI as Rock said, but there is a small glitch in that
feature in TweakUI. See Keith's post here:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/msg/973b204671b52a97

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Open My Computer
Notice how in a detail list it will say
Local Disk (C:)
shared on 'Server' (F:)

Well we just got some new systems from corporate and its backwards. It
shows up as
(C:) Local Disk
(F:) shared on 'Server'

How did they do that?
 
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