blog: custom drive icons

Post by **nikos** » 2008 Aug 17, 09:08

here's the comment area for today's blog article found at
http://www.zabkat.com/blog/17Aug08-cust ... -icons.htm

coffent · Post by **coffent** » 2008 Aug 17, 16:18

Another way to reduce drivebar clutter would be to *not* display drives that aren't used, or are infrequently used (they'd still be accessible from the directory pane). For example, I have two drives that are used only by some hardware I have attached to the computer. They're not intended for user access, yet they display on the drivebar. Is there some way to remove them from the drivebar?

snakebyte · Post by **snakebyte** » 2008 Aug 17, 21:20

coffent wrote: For example, I have two drives that are used only by some hardware I have attached to the computer. They're not intended for user access, yet they display on the drivebar. Is there some way to remove them from the drivebar?

I use an external card reader with 4 slots and I use only one of them. I was able to remove drive mapping of other three drives which I do not use by following these steps

1. Open Disk management (Right click My computer > Manage > Storage)
2. Right click on the drive which you would like to hide
3. Click "Change drive letter and Path"
4. Select your drive and press remove.

Now this drive will not appear in windows or X2.

FrizzleFry · Post by **FrizzleFry** » 2008 Aug 18, 23:40

Good tip, snakebyte!

coffent · Post by **coffent** » 2008 Aug 19, 19:51

Thanks for the suggestion!

kunkel321 · Post by **kunkel321** » 2010 Dec 31, 20:00

Thanks for pointing me here, Kilmatead! Yes, this is the post I was referring too! Just FYI for our viewers at home... There was one additional step in Vista...

Click on "dist management...

(the screenshot is here:
http://i.imgur.com/oPJzE.png
I'm not sure why it's not posting...

[edited IMG link to include file extension so it would display in the post - edited by fgagnon]