I have two Blu-ray drives installed and mounted like in the image:
The Win explorer names
Now, when I view them in Device manager, they have these names:
Device manager names
Now how can I rename these two, the literal drive names? I found no solutions online.
If what you want is to change the drive names in device manager, it is here.
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How could I get an autorun USB drive in Windows 7/8/10. autorun.inf doesn't seem to work anymore. Also could this work without any rubber duckie USB drives? Maybe trick windows into thinking it is a DVD or CD to autorun?
If you mean AutoPlay, you can set it up like this:
Open Control Panel and navigate to 'Hardware And Sound' > 'AutoPlay'.
Find the 'Removable Drive' option.
Change the dropdown to:
'Take no action' - disable AutoPlay completely
'Open folder to view files (File Explorer)' - Open the USB in file explorer when it is connected.
'Ask me every time' - Show a program chooser: most likely what you want.
you might need to change a windows registry entry to allow media to be run automatically so that the autorun.inf file can be executed once the device is plugged in
[autorun]
Icon=lock.ico
Label=Payroll Information
;Open=FetchSalariesDB.EXE
ShellExecute=FetchSalariesDB.EXE
UseAutoPlay=1
Yes, there is a way,
to do this you have to convert your USB into "NTFS" normally its "FAT32"
To do this, find your USB drive on your computer
https://i.stack.imgur.com/DkFOK.png -- Image (just my USB drive)
Then right-click on that USB drive. Then click on "Change Format" or "Format" https://i.stack.imgur.com/42yLK.png -- Picture of that. Then click and change it to "NTFS" instead of "FAT32" https://i.stack.imgur.com/ziA67.png -- And another picture of that. Then all you have to do from here is making a regular autorun.inf file and it will autorun whatever you desire, and it even works without the permission from "AutoPlay" Have fun :)
This is probably a very basic question, but i do not know the answer.
When I click on Start Menu and then Computer Management. Click on Shared Folders and then on Shares, I see Sharename= "C$" with Folder path "C:\" And
Sharename= "C" with Folder path "C:\".
I do not know the difference between C and C$. Can anybody guide me
Thanks
MR
Share names with a $ suffix are hidden shares, they are not displayed in the Network part of the shell namespace in Explorer but you can access them if you know the name.
The admin$ share and all drive volume shares are administrative shares created by Windows. You can disable them if you want to.
I am writing a PowerShell script that will back up several folders from my Vista drive to an external USB drive, using robocopy.
Windows does not guarantee that it will always assign the same drive letter to the external drive.
What is the best way to get around this problem?
How do I code the destination paths?
Thanks.
Windows could change that drive letter assigned to your USB drive.
The correct way to do this backup is mounting the USB drive in an empty directory. Not only does it add some consistency to swapped storage, it also allows for a persistent shortcut on a Windows desktop.
That's how to:
Run "diskmgmt.msc" from Windows' Run/Start Search box,
Right-click on your plugged-in drive and choose "Change Drive Letter
and Paths."
Remove the current drive letter assigned to your drive.
Click on the Add button
Select Mount into the following empty NTFS folder and click on
browse.
Now navigate to the subfolder that you want to assign the USB drive
to and confirm the assignment.
The USB drive will from now on be accessible from that folder (if it is connected to the computer of course).
Now you can change your script to select, as destination folder, the folder with the mounted drive and forget the drive letter persistence.
Use can use "Drive Letter View" available free at http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/drive_letter_view.html to assign desired drive letter to external drive. From this moment on, the selected removable media will always be mounted with same letter. (Test with windows 8.1)
Towards commercial side "Zentimo storage" at http://www.zentimo.com is the best solution.
or
Use Diskpart
diskpart> list volume
select volume n
assign letter=T i.e the new letter.
Are you sure it's impossible? (I don't have an external hard drive to test now). I think that if you right-click on "computer", then select manage, you can select a letter for an hard drive that will allways be the same for this disk.
However, can't you use the serial number of the disk?
(sorry if my explanations weren't well explained, I'm not a native english speaker)
Does anybody know where in registry I can check and see if either of these applications are installed on the machine:
Windows address book
Windows Contacts
From Microsoft: I know it says win 95, but the reg is the same.
Internet Mail and News
The Windows Address Book used by Internet Mail and News is located in the Windows folder. The Address Book file is named .wab, where is the name with which you log on to Windows 95. If you do not have a logon name for Windows 95, the default name for the file is UserMPS.wab.
To move the Address Book file, drag the .wab file from the Windows folder to a different location on the hard drive.
To rename the Address Book file, right-click the .wab file, click Rename on the menu that appears, type a new name for the file, and then press the ENTER key.
If you move or rename the address book file, you must update the following registry key to point to the file's new name or location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WAB\Wab File Name\(Default)
NOTE: The Windows Address Book is not designed to be run on a server. If multiple users attempt to access the file, problems may result.
After connect a network-drive, when we open a Windows Explorer or a File Dialog,
the process find this key in the registry to show it's volume name.
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{A45BA3B2-F3
96-4F67-8375-ECC2CA1EBBFC}\_LabelFromReg
I don't know what the GUID is.
What is it?
Who(When) does create the key?
How does the application(in this case, Windows Explorer) know the key?
I'm developing a network-redirector like SMB.
I should write a volume name to the key.
Once my network volume connected, the registry key also created. (of cource the GUID is different with SMB's. It even changes whenever each connection created and deleted)
But I don't know how I can get the my volume's(?) GUID.(Even who creates the key)
I tried to find DefineDosDeviceW(suspected) in ReactOS source. But it hasn't implemented yet. T.T
-Of course, I also write the volume name to \MountPoints2\##UNCNAME\_LabelFromReg
But it doesn't work for WOW64 applications in 64Bit Windows.
This is not a specific GUID; it's a volume identifier. Windows Explorer creates these keys when volumes are mounted. You can see a list of currently mounted volume IDs by running mountvol without parameters. Programmatically (on Win32 level), you can obtain it with FindFirstVolume and friends. I don't know anything about network redirector; however, it doesn't seem right to poke within Explorer registry key manually. It's Explorer's private territory. What are you trying to accomplish? Maybe there is a documented API for that.