ShowDriveLettersFirst no longer works for network drives

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R2X
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ShowDriveLettersFirst no longer works for network drives

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Since a few weeks the registry entry "ShowDriveLettersFirst" is ignored if the drive is a network drive:

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In Windows Explorer:

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There were also problems with the icons, but that seems to be working again now.

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Re: ShowDriveLettersFirst no longer works for network drives

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Which version are you using?

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Re: ShowDriveLettersFirst no longer works for network drives

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R2X wrote: 17 Feb 2025 13:20 Since a few weeks the registry entry "ShowDriveLettersFirst" is ignored if the drive is a network drive:
I was the first (I think) to scream about this when version number went from 26.70.XXXX to 26.80.XXXX. But our master fixed it in a few updates.
It works great with the latest version of 26.90.0000.

Kudos to master.
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Re: ShowDriveLettersFirst no longer works for network drives

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admin wrote: 17 Feb 2025 16:38 Which version are you using?
26.90.0000
I use a software to map cloud accounts as network drives. Does this perhaps make a difference to normal network drives?
Until the previous version (26.80.0500) , the icon for this particular software did not work either. With all other icons I had no problems.

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Re: ShowDriveLettersFirst no longer works for network drives

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I don't know how that software works, but unchecking Configuration | General | Safety Belts, Network | Network | Assume that mapped network drives are available should solve your issues.

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Re: ShowDriveLettersFirst no longer works for network drives

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admin wrote: 18 Feb 2025 08:43 I don't know how that software works, but unchecking Configuration | General | Safety Belts, Network | Network | Assume that mapped network drives are available should solve your issues.
That worked immediately. Thank you very much!

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