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.
This tutorial will show you how to show drive letters before or after drive labels (name) in File Explorer for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
EXAMPLE: Show drive letters before or after name in File Explorer > This PC
Here's How:
1 Do step 2 (before) or step 3 (after) below for what you would like to do.
2 Show Drive Letters Before Name in File Explorer
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Show_drive_letters_before_name_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:000000043 Show Drive Letters After Name 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_after_name_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:000000004 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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