Question: Windows 7 cannot view My Computer panel


  1. kakashi
    Posts : 2
    windows 7 64 bit
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    Question: Windows 7 cannot view My Computer panel


    Okay, so I recently installed Windows 7 Enterprise and did a little tweaking to my Policy Editor to enable CLT-ALT-DEL at login. I applied and saved and rebooted my computer.

    After the reboot, everything looked and felt normal with the exception of my Windows Explorer. As I look to the left of the panel, I see everything except "My Computer" or my local drives. This is where I would need to go to view and access my files. I can still manually type in C: or D: etc but I rather have ease of access with a mouse click.

    I searched online for an answer and every time I would find a solution it was to enable / disable view of certain drives on Policy Editor (in which I have it as disabled), or to use the folder options menu to enable view of all drive letters (in which case wasn't what I needed either). I have also checked disk management to see if my drives were "online" and they all were.

    Is there a fix for this? If you need more information, please let me know! Thanks in advance!
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  3. windude99
    Posts : 1,533
    Windows 7 Professional x64 Service Pack 1
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    kakashi said:
    Okay, so I recently installed Windows 7 Enterprise and did a little tweaking to my Policy Editor to enable CLT-ALT-DEL at login. I applied and saved and rebooted my computer.

    After the reboot, everything looked and felt normal with the exception of my Windows Explorer. As I look to the left of the panel, I see everything except "My Computer" or my local drives. This is where I would need to go to view and access my files. I can still manually type in C: or D: etc but I rather have ease of access with a mouse click.

    I searched online for an answer and every time I would find a solution it was to enable / disable view of certain drives on Policy Editor (in which I have it as disabled), or to use the folder options menu to enable view of all drive letters (in which case wasn't what I needed either). I have also checked disk management to see if my drives were "online" and they all were.

    Is there a fix for this? If you need more information, please let me know! Thanks in advance!
    Try to system restore to before you made any changes in group policy.
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  4. kakashi
    Posts : 2
    windows 7 64 bit
    Thread Starter
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    i didn't set up a system restore point... I'm pretty there's a policy that i'm missing or something.
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