Explorer showing removable drives twice


  1. Posts : 84
    Windows10 Pro
       #1

    Explorer showing removable drives twice


    Hi guys,

    This is another minor annoyance. When I insert any removable drive (USB, SD cards, etc) the device shows up twice in Explorer. Once under "This PC" tree and the other as a device. See attached pic (USB Drive H):

    I remember hearing about this being the way it's designed to work, but frankly it's a bit silly - I only need to see a single entry for the drive/device...

    Is there any way to get rid of one of these entries without stuffing up some other Explorer feature?

    Cheers,

    Mike.

    Explorer showing removable drives twice-win10exp2drives.jpg
      My Computer


  2. Posts : 151
    Windows 10
       #2
      My Computer


  3. Posts : 42,735
    Win 10 Pro (22H2) (2nd PC is 22H2)
       #3

    It's a bug which you'll probably find will recur at some stage. I did the registry fix, and things were ok for quite a while.

    By contrast, XYplorer, for example (commercial/free file manager) does not demonstrate the same problem when explorer does.
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  4. Posts : 26
    Windows 10 Home (x64)
       #4

    Bug. nothing you can do about it, though I never got this issue...
      My Computer


 

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