Solved Show Drive Letters First in Windows 7

[ustahl]

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?

 

[Airbot]

You could use something like EasyBCD to do it.
Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 - NeoSmart Technologies

 

[Win7User]

Make sure you have Show Drive Letters checked in Folder Options...it works for me.

 

[Airbot]

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.

 

[ustahl]

Problem fixed

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:
---
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"ShowDriveLettersFirst"=dword:00000004
---
Copy & paste into Notepad and rename it a .reg file. It works!

 

[Brink]

Thank you Ustahl. This tutorial below is for you.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3265-drive-letters-show-before-after-name-computer.html

Shawn