In Windows 7 , "My Computer" used to separate my drives into clear groups: "Hard Disk Drives" and "Devices with Removable Storage".
In Windows 11, it seems to lump everything into a single category called "Devices and drives" regardless of whether it's my SSD, USB stick or Cloud Storage. I find this harder to read at a glance.
Is there a native registry tweak or folder setting to bring back the distinct group headers? I know about "Group by > Type," but it doesn't quite look the same.
Why is J_CENA showing and not hidden? /massive joke
Where? I don’t see it
Unlucky. They remove useful stuff like that then give really opaque 'explanations' as to why (it's for your own good or UI improvements are the usual excuses). There'll be an unsupported 3rd party app to fix it somewhere like ExplorerPatcher. Don't tell your IT department or they'll take you out the back and flog you.
😭
I also miss this.. the only way of doing similar I put to group by filesystem.
https://preview.redd.it/do1x4t6a1y7g1.png?width=1301&format=png&auto=webp&s=911feeb2879e47fc9f7a4683b9819c1514bbd670
still thumbdrives and etc could be in the same group if you don't use exFAT or something.
https://preview.redd.it/if8r5mm8ly7g1.png?width=1115&format=png&auto=webp&s=aa0b82bc8b06339952e0ffb0cb82b79a9b9d98c4
Yeah. look at this .. Its a mess. I really miss that feature.
That terabox is really sus
Yes. I use its 1TB storage as the 4th backup option. I upload only the encrypted files. I have seen my traffic goes to Baidu. 100% I upload here only encrypted files, very less importent files.
Straight up downgraded in Windows 11...
Now you can just see it in the side bar
https://preview.redd.it/7f18hjbg1y7g1.png?width=287&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6f9ad074e211a05c7534b0440db49945601236c
Anything that's not in This PC is external, i.e. this H: drive
Removable drives are shown in This PC as well. There is a registry key to turn off the duplicate appearance of the same drive.
In Windows 11, this isn't usually possible. You can use this program from GitHub: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
Among the various useful functions (such as re-enabling the toolbar), there's also the option to reset the groups based on devices...hard disk or DVD drive.
Windows 7, back when Windows was actually decent for 99.9% of us.
Look into ExplorerPatcher + OldNewExplorer. I can’t remember which one offers the feature (maybe both do), but it is there.
Thanks I will try
ExplorerPatcher has it, and IIRC StartAllBack (paid) is what does it currently for me, but I'll have to check at home to be sure.
Doesn't Group By> Type do the same thing?