Solve : WIN XP, SP@, No Drives in My Computer?

1.	Solve : WIN XP, SP@, No Drives in My Computer?
Answer» I have lost the drives in My Computer when I click on the Desktop Icon or go to Start My Computer. It worked before. I have seen that the registry controls whether it works or not. Here is my entry. Can someone who has WIN XP, SP2 please post their full entry . The entry is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Thanks, regards, Bob. [recovering disk space - old attachment deleted by ADMIN]Why are you LOOKING in regedit for your HDD's ? ? Do they show up in Disk Management ? ? What happened prior to this ? ?Hi. Thanks. I want the HDD's and CD drives to show up when I use the My Computer Icon on the Desktop and on the Start Menu My Computer as they were before. The drives all work as I can use all my shortcuts to run programs or view folders on all the drives. I can explore the drives by using IE. I had another problem (not being able to install NFW 2.0) and was told to set the C:\ Windows folders to read/write before I ran the NFW 2.0 install which is what I did and from that point on My Computer does not show the drives. I was told that the registry entry above controlled whether My Computer would work. If I use Windows Explorer My Computer does not show any drives. Regards, Bob.Answer what i posted... And what is NFW ? ?NFW is Microsoft Net Framework 2. Yes they all do show in Computer Management - Device Manager and also Disk Management. Bob.Well i have no way of knowing what changes you have done in the registry... You may want to try running sfc /scannow from a Command prompt and re-boot... No guarantees...Hi. The strange thing is that I did not make any registry edits at all. I found by Google search that the registry entry controlled whether My Computer would work or not. It may be a false lead. What does sfc /scannow do?. Regards, Bob. Quote from: BobFam on March 05, 2011, 09:53:53 PM was told to set the C:\ Windows folders to read/write before I ran the NFW 2.0 install which is what I did and from that point on My Computer does not show the drives. I was told that the registry entry above controlled whether My Computer would work. whoever told you these things should not be asked for advice in the future. How exactly did you do the former? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/191579 TweakUI download: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/c/a/fca6767b-9ed9-45a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe TweakUI can be used to reshow the drives; if they aren't being shown as a result of a change to the registry.Thanks BC-Programmer. You are right about the guy who got me screwed up. I'll try TweakUI. Regards, Bob.Hi BC_Programmer. I installed TweakUI. When it opened I clicked on My Computer in the left column and clicked OK nothing happened. I tried to cancel and it would not cancel and close. I had to CTRL-ALT-Delete and click TweakUI to get it to close. Bob. Quote from: BC_Programmer on March 05, 2011, 10:27:37 PM whoever told you these things should not be asked for advice in the future. How exactly did you do the former? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/191579 TweakUI download: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/c/a/fca6767b-9ed9-45a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe TweakUI can be used to reshow the drives; if they aren't being shown as a result of a change to the registry. Hi BC_Programmer. I installed TweakUI. I finally was able to open up My Computer in TweakUI and in the drives section all my drives are checked and do not have the little red area at the bottom of the icon like the unused drives have. I tried to cancel and it would not cancel and close. I had to CTRL-ALT-Delete and click TweakUI to get it to close. I still have no drives in My Computer on the Desktop or the Start Menu. Bob.Try looking for the VALUE set(0 or 1) for your HideMyComputerIcons{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} on regedit. It MIGHT be set to zero(0) or off and MODIFY it to 1. Full Path -> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideMyComputerIcons http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/6232a.aspx

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I have lost the drives in My Computer when I click on the Desktop Icon or go to Start My Computer. It worked before. I have seen that the registry controls whether it works or not. Here is my entry. Can someone who has WIN XP, SP2 please post their full entry . The entry is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Thanks, regards, Bob.

[recovering disk space - old attachment deleted by ADMIN]Why are you LOOKING in regedit for your HDD's ? ?
Do they show up in Disk Management ? ?

What happened prior to this ? ?Hi. Thanks. I want the HDD's and CD drives to show up when I use the My Computer Icon on the Desktop and on the Start Menu My Computer as they were before. The drives all work as I can use all my shortcuts to run programs or view folders on all the drives. I can explore the drives by using IE. I had another problem (not being able to install NFW 2.0) and was told to set the C:\ Windows folders to read/write before I ran the NFW 2.0 install which is what I did and from that point on My Computer does not show the drives. I was told that the registry entry above controlled whether My Computer would work. If I use Windows Explorer My Computer does not show any drives. Regards, Bob.Answer what i posted...
And what is NFW ? ?NFW is Microsoft Net Framework 2. Yes they all do show in Computer Management - Device Manager and also Disk Management. Bob.Well i have no way of knowing what changes you have done in the registry...
You may want to try running sfc /scannow from a Command prompt and re-boot...
No guarantees...Hi. The strange thing is that I did not make any registry edits at all. I found by Google search that the registry entry controlled whether My Computer would work or not. It may be a false lead. What does sfc /scannow do?. Regards, Bob. Quote from: BobFam on March 05, 2011, 09:53:53 PM

was told to set the C:\ Windows folders to read/write before I ran the NFW 2.0 install which is what I did and from that point on My Computer does not show the drives. I was told that the registry entry above controlled whether My Computer would work.

whoever told you these things should not be asked for advice in the future. How exactly did you do the former?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/191579

TweakUI download: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/c/a/fca6767b-9ed9-45a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

TweakUI can be used to reshow the drives; if they aren't being shown as a result of a change to the registry.Thanks BC-Programmer. You are right about the guy who got me screwed up. I'll try TweakUI. Regards, Bob.Hi BC_Programmer. I installed TweakUI. When it opened I clicked on My Computer in the left column and clicked OK nothing happened. I tried to cancel and it would not cancel and close. I had to CTRL-ALT-Delete and click TweakUI to get it to close. Bob. Quote from: BC_Programmer on March 05, 2011, 10:27:37 PM

whoever told you these things should not be asked for advice in the future. How exactly did you do the former?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/191579

TweakUI download: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/c/a/fca6767b-9ed9-45a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

TweakUI can be used to reshow the drives; if they aren't being shown as a result of a change to the registry.

Hi BC_Programmer. I installed TweakUI. I finally was able to open up My Computer in TweakUI and in the drives section all my drives are checked and do not have the little red area at the bottom of the icon like the unused drives have. I tried to cancel and it would not cancel and close. I had to CTRL-ALT-Delete and click TweakUI to get it to close. I still have no drives in My Computer on the Desktop or the Start Menu. Bob.Try looking for the VALUE set(0 or 1) for your HideMyComputerIcons{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} on regedit. It MIGHT be set to zero(0) or off and MODIFY it to 1.
Full Path -> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideMyComputerIcons

http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/6232a.aspx

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