Showing posts with label Explorer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Explorer. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Changing Mapped Network path names to short names or custom names

Within an My Computer or Explorer window you can right click on any mapped network drive connection and click RENAME and give your drive mappings pretty names as opposed to the standard syntax
"SHARENAME on SERVERNAME "

This can be very handy if users wish to map drives directly to subfolders within the share.
As in this scenatio the name can be very very long and annoying on the eye.

Right clicking RENAME in explorer populates the following registry key
_LabelFromReg
found under
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\Mountpoints2\sharename 

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

Thursday, 16 September 2010

Managing the File Open with context Menu

If you wish to control or lockdown the "Open With" list that a users sees in their explorer view when the right click documents then you need to manipulate the following registry key area

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts

Under each file extension their will be a OpenWithList
eg. (.DOC)

You can add new Association or remove existing ones.