Showing it twice is precisely the point in my first post. The OP is complaining that his local (C, D, and E) partitions are "hidden", only appearing inside of This PC, while the other drives appear outside This PC, not requiring it to be expanded to see them. But all the drives were never supposed to ever appear outside of This PC; only USB drives were supposed to appear there. Now that it's working correctly (hiding the non-USB drives), he's complaining. Those of us who dislike the clutter caused by the (partial) duplication apply the tweak provided in my first post, which stops USB drives from being duplicated outside of This PC. That way, all drives are always available inside This PC alone and nowhere else.
Note that all this is totally separate from the question of This PC initially appearing expanded or collapsed. For me checking just now, the Open dialog always showed This PC expanded, usually expanded down to my Desktop folder location (O:\Desktop)—despite actually opening to several different targets (Documents, Downloads, etc., all actually located under C:\Users, which it did not expand to). My only comment here is that the Open dialog has been broken since Windows XP, and Microsoft in their substantial incompetence has only manged to break more things since then and cause it to behave randomly differently depending on what software requested to show the dialog. In a sane world, it would work exactly the same way in each program, would always expand This PC, and expand the tree down to the folder it's currently displaying in the right-hand pane, and not jump around when you're trying to scroll it.
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My Computer
At a glance
Windows 11
- OS
- Windows 11
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Intel i9-14900K
