I want drive letters in the navigation pane

This is an utterly bizarre thread. Testament to how impenetrable some communities can be and how obstinate individual users can also be.

I cannot fix your issue, though I am honestly confused why someone replicated your issue and then didn't tell you how to reverse it... But I can provide perhaps a better way to do it, which I personally prefer. You can chop and change any of this to achieve your own desired results.

This is my result:


First, for other people than OP especially, preferably remove all the drives from the Navigation Pane. You can use these tenforums tutorials to do so:
How to Add or Remove Duplicate Drives in Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 10
How to Add or Remove This PC in Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 10

Next, follow this tutorial:
How to pin drives to the navigation pane in File Explorer on Windows 10
(Can this be added to tenforums as a tutorial please?)

With the existing code you'll add a "D:" drive and the article also provides instructions on how to change it and add "C:" as well. I have and did both, but you may have more or less drives using alternate letters. The pertinent code is at lines 3-6 and you can use these to easily replace it:

FOR C: DRIVE

set "_icon=%%SystemRoot%%\system32\imageres.dll,31"
set "_name=C:"
set "_guid=ffffffff-ffff-ffff-0000-00000000000c"
set "_target=c:\\"


FOR D: DRIVE

set "_icon=%%SystemRoot%%\system32\imageres.dll,30"
set "_name=D:"
set "_guid=ffffffff-ffff-ffff-0000-00000000000d"
set "_target=d:\\"


I've highlighted in red the relevant parts that need changing should you have other drives/needs. I did try and isolate the imageres.dll numbering in relation to icons, but they don't match up at all (I used the IconViewer extension but it gives the wrong numbers for icons). I guessed the correct ones for me in the end anyway, which are 30 (no Windows icon overlay) and 31 (little blue modern Windows icon overlaid).

For me this achieves better results than Windows own inconsistent and buggy implementation, being far more static and reliable, as well as a little customisable. Why this isn't its own little process available when right-clicking drives I do not know (except -Microsoft-).

Hopefully this helps somewhat, though it completely sidesteps solving your problem and This PC will presumably still be empty. There are other threads out there for example. But saying they're clear on the solution is overstating it. Broken Windows updates are mentioned as a possible cause with sfc, dism or repair install all mentioned as possible solutions. If they don't work or you are that opposed to doing certain ones, I'd argue that the hip new files app would be better in almost every way anyway?

Regards!

In spite of the history of Microsoft's foibles in adjusting things I go to File Explorer, View tab and Options, get the page where showing drive letters can be made.


What I always get:

jamieteawhite said:

This is an utterly bizarre thread. Testament to how impenetrable some communities can be and how obstinate individual users can also be.
...
though I am honestly confused why someone replicated your issue and then didn't tell you how to reverse it...

...
Regards!

Because the OP was arrogant and uncooperative --- he even had to argue about providing a decent screenshot!!!

He wouldn't provide context or history, either.

I assumed he was a troll playing "stump the gurus"...

Now, if I can just remember how I did it, I'd be happy to share with everyone else!

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Here we go:

Code:

PS C:\> gi 'HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum'


    Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies


Name                           Property
----                           --------
NonEnum                        {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} : 1

I still find it hard to believe this value appeared in the OP's registry by immaculate conception!!!

unifex said:

Given that the OP was half a year ago, it's clearly not an urgent issue anymore

It became not a practical issue as of my workaround shown in post #51.
Age of threads is unimportant. All of us here like resolution to nonworking things.
(Absence of This PC in navigation pane is unresolved. Now that I made drive letters, the absence is welcome.)

jamieteawhite said:

a better way to do it

Layout at its cleanest, thanks. I will add all the letters, and remove my library.

RE: (Absence of This PC in navigation pane is unresolved.) have the settings in Folder Options for the Navigation pane been verified for function?