How to show drive letters first in My Computer
Published: August 01, 2005Send your feedback
Introduction
By default, when you open My Computer, the drive-letter for the disk drives appear after the drive description, such as:
Local Disk (C:)
Display the drive-letters first
To display drive-letters first, followed by the drive description, use these steps:
- Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
- Navigate to the following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer
- If not already exists, create a REG_DWORD value named ShowDriveLettersFirst
- Double-click ShowDriveLettersFirst and set its Value data to 4
- Exit the Registry Editor.
Here are the other possible data for ShowDriveLettersFirst registry value:
| Value Data | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 | Show drive letters after description (default) |
| 1 | Show network drive letters before description, and local drive letters after description |
| 2 | No drive letter is displayed |
| 4 | Show drive letters before description |
