[THIN] Re: I need a way to shorten the name displayed on mapped drives
- From: Brian Smyth <briansmyth@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:39:25 +0000
Here is a sample of kix script to perform this:
$RenameDrive =
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2"
use z: \\file01\share$\test
writevalue("$RenameDrive\##file01#share$\test", "_LabelFromReg", "Test
Share", REG_SZ)
Hope this helps
brian
On 1/12/06, Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Try this... from
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330193
> To change the so that the drive letter comes first:
> (A:) 3 1/2 Floppy
>
>
>
>
> Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
> Locate and then click the following subkey in the registry:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
>
> On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
>
> Type ShowDriveLettersFirst, and then press ENTER.
>
> On the Edit menu, click Modify.
>
> Type 4, and then click OK.
>
>
>
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> Key: ShowDriveLettersFirst
> Type: DWORD
> Value: 1,2, or 4
> If the value is 1, the drive letter is displayed first for remote drives.
> If the value is 2, drive letters are not displayed.
> If the value is 4, the drive letter is displayed first for all drives.
>
>
>
> JK
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Andy <andysideas@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:40:22 PM
> Subject: [THIN] I need a way to shorten the name displayed on mapped drives
>
>
>
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> We are changing from NT4 fat clients over to a 2003 desktop
>
> In the past NT4 simply display the users home directory as H: in MS WORD
> open file dialogue box
>
> On the new Citrix 2003 server WORD now displays
>
> [username on server H:] in the LOOK IN section of the file dialogue.
>
>
> Does anyone know a way I can change this so that is only displays H:
>
> I do love these microsoft 'features'
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