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Thread ID: 68425	2006-04-27 11:56:00	XP drive letters and names/label assignments	manu (8770)	Press F1

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450069	2006-04-27 11:56:00	A helpful hint for those of you who might be struggling with drive lettering and naming. I installed a 4-slot USB card reader. XP proceeded to be very helpful, as it does and automatically juggled all my drive letters - including the network maps which were close by. Drat! I was stuck with a DVD drive with the label "Compact Flash Reader" hah! The Micro$oft KB articles were helpful with re-assigning drive letters I was thus able to re-organise the fixed drives back into sequence to suit me and my quirks. The artcles however carefully ignored labels. All of the property dialog boxes were blank; My Computer showed the old names and the label boxes would steadfastly not accept any characters. I googled for ages with no success apart from one place which suggested going back to DOS and using the LABEL command... :) I should have known to think simple from the outset... I headed into Regedit and just searched for "Compact Flash Reader". Bingo! There it was under : HKEY_Local-Machine\software\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\Explorer \DriveIcons\[your drive letter here]\DefaultLabel (the label changes on the fly for DVDs etc...) Usual caveats about earthing yourself before using regedit etc... A simple 'Modify', close Regedit, close My Computer, re-open it, and voila! - your very own default label name appears. How satisfying to having everything neat and ordered. Neil	manu (8770)
450070	2006-04-27 22:21:00	I did the same thing here, for an internal USB card reader . And my Ipod, and digital cam . I gave them their own icons . Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons You can also put in Defaulticon, which give devices, their own icons .	Speedy Gonzales (78)
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