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
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012
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
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.
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.
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