Windows 10: Add or Remove Duplicate Drives in Navigation Pane in Windows 10

You're most welcome. *Smile

 

Hi, I'm having a couple of issues after merging the .reg file.

When I click on My PC the drives have gone like they should, if I click on the shortcut I have to my folders on different drives I have on the desktop the some drives still show up in the navigation pane.

Opening D: shows just D: still
Opening E: shows E: still
Opening F: shows all the drives
Opening another shortcut on F: shows no drives as it should

Very strange, any ideas what to do?

I've checked both Delegatefolders in reg edit and none have {F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83} in them anymore.

 

Just noticed on the F: drive it changes every time I click on it sometimes no drives show other times they all show.

Also i have noticed explorer restarting very quickly (the taskbar disappears few a second then comes back) so it looks like its refreshing or something.

 

Hello Baddi0, *Smile

Go ahead and post a screenshot showing what you're seeing to see if anything may stand out.

If you haven't already, restart the computer to see if that may help.

 

Hi Brink,

Here are the screenshots, thanks *Smile

clicking on this "This PC" on the desktop and its fine.





D: shortcut on the desktop still shows the D: drive






and E: still shows the E: drive





F: was working but after another restart is gone back to this

 

1 more thing i have Sata Hot plug enabled in my Bios could that be causing issues?

 

Having SATA Hot plug enabled shouldn't affect this, but you can test your theory by temporarily disabling it.

Normally, only drives considered as removable are shown separately in the navigation pane. It's interesting that your Windows drive ("C") is showing separately. It shouldn't.

Do you happen to have any 3rd party tweaking program installed that may have an option to add or remove these drives from the navigation pane?

As a test, run the remove .reg file one more time to see how it looks afterwards.

 

I believe Hotswap drives are considered "removable" are they not? ( would explain C: showing) if you check the USB removal icon on the taskbar they should show up there if Windows thinks it removable. Disable Hotswap if you don't use it eg in a RAID setup or for backup purposes with a Drive Caddy.

KB

 

I have CCleaner but I don't know if that counts as a tweaking programs other that I don't have any that I know of.

I've ran the .reg file again and turned off hot-swapping but before I did I checked the taskbar and I had no USB removal icon in there.

After the restart everything looks good. I'll post again later on and let you know if thats still the case *Smile

 

Well its been a few hours and it seems as everything is working fine now.

It must have been the hotplug that I had on that was causing the issues. Thanks for the help guys *Smile

 

I lost the ">" after I ran the "Remove_Drives_from_Navigation_Pane.reg" file. Is that WAD?

Before:




After:

 

Hello Blofeld, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

When you don't have the selected item (ex: "Quick access" or "This PC") in the navigation pane active (highlighted blue instead of gray), the arrows will fade away after a bit.

You can either hover over the area to have the arrows reappear, or click on the selected item (ex: "Quick access" or "This PC").

 

i think this problem occurs because of the sata hdd being enabled to be hot swappable in the BIOS..

I haven't test this theory though..


The reg file also removed the USB flash drive, microsd card from showing as well now.

 

Hi Brink, thank's.

I noticed that, but is that the way it is supposed to work or just a (un)fortunate side-effect?

 

Is the problem of this duplicate drive occur is due to the removable drives including
-flash drive
-microsd cards
-SATA hot swap hdd enabled in BIOS