"Derek" <usenet.email@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:11:12 +0100, "johnbee" <johnbrockbank@com.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Derek" <usenet.email@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:05:15 +0100, "johnbee"
>>> <johnbrockbank@com.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"jbm" <not@home.ok> wrote in message
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>>>>>
>>>>> "Derek" <usenet.email@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:hrggb6doeekv9mecc5nu153afife6d9q9c@4ax.com...
>>>>>> If there's no disc inserted on my D: drive, the drive doesn't appear
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> my
>>>>>> "computer folder", even when I leave the "Hide empty drives in my
>>>>>> computer
>>>>>> folder" checkbox unchecked in the folder options menu. Is there
>>>>>> another
>>>>>> setting somewhere to reveal my empty D: drive? I'm using Win 7
>>>>>> ultimate
>>>>>> 64
>>>>>> bit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Organise > Folder and search options
>>>>>
>>>>> View tab >
>>>>>
>>>>> In the "Advanced settings", under the "Hidden files and folders" item,
>>>>> check the "Show hidden files, folders or drives".
>>>>>
>>>>> Apply > OK
>>>>>
>>>>> That should do what you want. Took me ages to find it when I set this
>>>>> up.
>>>>>
>>>>> jim
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>In the same section one of the boxes to optionally check is: 'Show
>>>>empty
>>>>drives in the computer folder'. I don't know what it means because it
>>>>seems
>>>>not to do anything,
>>>
>>> You're right: it doesn't.
>>>
>>>>but it certainly sounds as though checking it would
>>>>solve the OP's question.
>>>
>>> That's what I was hoping. The problem doesn't present me with any
>>> difficulties. I can still write to and read from D: when I insert a
>>> disk.
>>> I
>>> might just have to live with it until my next clean-install.
>>
>>I am not sure whether this has been said, but I will in case it hasn't.
>>
>>The bad news is that there is a Registry entry, in 'Current user',
>>explorer,
>>advanced, named hidedriveswithnomedia.
>
> I found the entry by navigating to
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced,
> and it was set to 0, like yours.
>
>>Mine is set to be zero. I suspect
>>yours is set to 1. Start regedit and have a look - you won't do any harm
>>if
>>you just look.
>>
>>I reckon whoever installed the drive set that value. Look on the bright
>>side - at least you don't have to open it to see if the drive has an empty
>>disk inside.
>>
>>Anyway, you can change it with Regedit if you don't mind having a go.
>>
>>Alternatively of course you can google the term and find a utility to do
>>it
>>for you.
>
> Cheers, John. Looks like I might have to live with it.
I reckon that you have unearthed a bug. That registry entry presumably is
supposed to be altered by the 'folder options' interface, and surely must be
the thing that is supposed to control the behaviour. My guess is that
altering the interface check box does nothing (or even changes the wrong
thing) and that behaviour is actually controlled by something else entirely.
Probably both done by the same programmer on a day when the next Grand Theft
Auto was released.