This tutorial will show you how to hide or show drive letters in File Explorer for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
A drive letter is a single alphabetic character A through Z that has been assigned by Windows to a physical drive or drive partition connected to the computer to reference the drive by.
Contents
- Option One: Hide or Show Drive Letters in File Explorer in Folder Options
- Option Two: Hide or Show Drive Letters in File Explorer using REG file
EXAMPLE: Hide or Show Drive Letters in File Explorer > This PC
1 Open Folder Options.
2 Click/tap on the View tab. (see screenshot below)
3 Check (show - default ) or uncheck (hide) Show drive letters for what you want.
4 Click/tap on OK.
1 Do step 2 (show) or step 3 (hide) below for what you would like to do.
2 Show Drive Letters in File Explorer
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Show_drive_letters_for_current_user.reg
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"ShowDriveLettersFirst"=dword:000000003 Hide Drive Letters in File Explorer
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Hide_drive_letters_for_current_user.reg
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"ShowDriveLettersFirst"=dword:000000024 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
7 Either restart the explorer process, sign out and sign in, or restart the computer to apply.
8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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