How To Rename your Default Drive Labels, Including CD Drives

[Bored1]

This involves editing the registry, so you'd better know what you are doing



Goto Start, Run, Type Regedit
go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

Find the key called "DriveIcons" if you don't have one, create it

Create a new key for each drive letter
ie C for C:\ D for D:\ etc

Create a key in each drive key called "DefaultLabel" and change the value to whatever you need it to be,

It should look something like this if you did it right

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

-DriveIcons
-C
-DefaultLablel
-D
-DefaultLabel

etc. etc. etc.


If you need any help let me know

 

[bcastner]

Am I missing something here?

In Disk Management you can right click on any drive, select properties, and change the drive label directly.

 

[bcastner]

In fact, in "My Computer" you can right click the device, Properties, and give them a custom label.

What is the point in going to the registry?

 

[Bored1]

you can't do that with a CD Drive though, I have 6 and i like to keep track of them by giving them different names when there is not a CD in

 

[bcastner]

Bored1,

Thanks, for the life of me I could not figure out why a registry edit might be desired.

Thanks again.

 

[Bored1]

No worries man, i posted this to an ME thread, a guy couldn't figure it out, neither could I, it bugged me a whole lot, I posted to his thread, which was 2 years old, and he just relpied saying he has still been looking for an answer lol

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