Drive Letters or Mappings

I have been working on a Windows 2008 R2 XenApp 6 environment and the client does not like the way the drive mappings are shown.

So Windows will now show it like this as a default.

But when you open Excel etc you cannot see the drive letter as the window shows it at the end.

To change this behaviour you can set a registry key to show it in 4 different ways.

Key is HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

Reg DWORD – ShowDriveLettersFirst

Value 0

Sets it as above

Value of 1 sets drive letters to show first for NETWORK drives only as below

Value of 2 sets the machine to only show mappings and no drive letters as below.

A value of 4 sets it to show drive letters before for both local and network drives.

As always back up registry first if you are not sure

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