Thursday 24 February 2011

Changing Mapped Network path names to short names or custom names

In "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer" you can right click network drive mappings and click to Rename.
This allows you to give drive mapping more meaninful names than the standard syntax of
Sharename on Servername

This is very handy when users want to map drives to subdirectories within a share and not have to view a massive full path in the explorer view.

Right clicking and renaming the share sets the following registry value
_LabelFromReg
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\sharename

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