In XP and Vista following registry fix made the drive letter of all drives appear first, in front of the drive label:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"ShowDriveLettersFirst"=dword:00000004
Unfortunately this setting doesn't seem to work any longer in Win7's Explorer, and the drive letters remain at the end.
Does anybody know of a working method?
You could use something like EasyBCD to do it.
Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 - NeoSmart Technologies
Make sure you have Show Drive Letters checked in Folder Options...it works for me.
Oh, he's asking about showing the letters in front of the drive instead of after, I thought you were talking about the boot order. My bad.
Sorry guys, for misleading you in my 1st message, the mentioned registry fix does work in Windows 7, too.
I had made a mistake earlier by adding the fix "ShowDriveLettersFirst"=dword:00000004 by error manually under HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
I now deleted the wrong entry from HKEY_CURRENT_USER and made the fix correctly by merging a little .reg file with following contents:
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"ShowDriveLettersFirst"=dword:00000004
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Copy & paste into Notepad and rename it a .reg file. It works!
Thank you Ustahl. This tutorial below is for you. :)
Drive Letters - Show Before or After Name in Computer
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