Recent content by micahs

It works!! Both the manual registry update and the batch file - thank you so much! I would love to understand why the circuitous route for these select computers - the only difference between the machines is Windows Pro vs Windows Home - could that have something to do with this?

Unfortunately, this portion of the registry is empty on both machines:

This is on the right track! For some reason, it looks like the other computers "label" these volumnes "windows" by default? Below are snips from the successful renaming of the drive (attempted John, but wasn't able in command prompt - but as you can see, the drive is "renamed" to John - though...

I attempted the CMD prompt as admin, and it reports "parameters not compatible". However, on that same machine (which views local disks as "Local Disk" not "Windows"), I was successful in right-clicking the drive and "renaming". To be clear - the O.S does allow us to add the map drive and...

Thank you for the response! Using the link above, we were able to "map" - or otherwise use the drives as local drives - AND rename the drives successfully - but only on computers where the drive is prefixed with "Local Disk" and not "Windows". We are trying to achieve the same results with the...

We are attempting to map a filepath (linked OneDrive folder location) as a local drive via a shortcut in the windows startup folder. The method described in that link works, and any computer that displays the C: drive as "Local Disk (C:)" will allow the user to rename (relabel) the drive...