By default Windows XP set drive label with this format: Label (DriveLetter:). And this format isn’t annoying me until I have many drives in my computer. And when I was realized it, I want to put drive letter as my drives label so that I can find my destination drive quickly. And this can be happened on your computer too, whereas you are a network administrator because a network administrator often to map remote drive onto their computer.
And with make drive letter as your initial drive label, which will make your will manage them easily because you don’t need read them by label but by drive letters.
And here are the steps:
1. To make it work, you need modify the registry. Click Start -> Run, enter regedit in box and then press Enter.

2. Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer path.

3. In Explorer key, right click on empty space on right panel; choose New -> DWORD value menu.

4. Replace the original value to ShowDriveLettersFirst and then press Enter.

5. Double click it, replace value 0 to 4, and then click OK button.

6. Close Registry Editor and then restart your computer.
7. Now, if you did it right, your drives label are started with its drives letters.

And if you don’t like this, just modify ShowDriveLettersFirst to 0 or delete it from registry.





















3 Comments Received
May 19th, 2008 @10:46 pm
If you don’t want to restart your system, just kill the “explorer.exe” proccess and run it again, you’ll see the changes without restarting Windows.
May 20th, 2008 @1:51 am
@xyborg
Thanks for your additional trick to make it be shorter time.
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