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Why Are Registy Changes Deleted After Rebooting?
I have a Gateway 816GM with a Memory Card reader that handles MMC/SD,
CompactFlashI/II, SmartMedia and MS/MS Pro. Each type shows up as a separate drive letter. I accidently "removed" this by clicking the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the System Tray (was trying to detach a different USB-connected device at the time and the cursor wasn't lined up properly). Upon rebooting Plug and Play automatically detected the hardware and installed drivers. Unfortunately, instead of the drive letters being assigned the above names, they all say the generic "Removable Disk" in Windows Explorer and My Computer. In doing some Google searches, and in comparing to the model in the store where I bought it, I see that names for drives are specified in the Registry, specifically at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ DriveIcons. Just create a key for each of the four drive letters, then another key for each called DefaultLabel that contains the names/description I want. After doing this, I go into Windows Explorer and My Computer and - Bingo! - I have the names I wanted. But ... after rebooting, the names went back to their generic "Removable Disk". And when I did REGEDIT again, I saw that all of the changes I made had been removed! So, what "protection" could be in place to delete Registry changes that were manually made the next time the machine boots? How can I bypass this to make my changes permanent? By the way, I spent over one hour with Gateway in a Tech Chat, close to another hour on a toll-call, and then 2 emails to a supposedly higher level Tech Support. They don't have a clue. Now they want me to call another line and give my credit card, or call a 900-number at $3/min. I don't think so - I didn't just fall off the turnip truck. -- To reply, take out the garbage. |
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Why Are Registy Changes Deleted After Rebooting?
"mjm" wrote in message less.com... I have a Gateway 816GM with a Memory Card reader that handles MMC/SD, CompactFlashI/II, SmartMedia and MS/MS Pro. Each type shows up as a separate drive letter. I accidently "removed" this by clicking the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the System Tray (was trying to detach a different USB-connected device at the time and the cursor wasn't lined up properly). Upon rebooting Plug and Play automatically detected the hardware and installed drivers. Unfortunately, instead of the drive letters being assigned the above names, they all say the generic "Removable Disk" in Windows Explorer and My Computer. In doing some Google searches, and in comparing to the model in the store where I bought it, I see that names for drives are specified in the Registry, specifically at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ DriveIcons. Just create a key for each of the four drive letters, then another key for each called DefaultLabel that contains the names/description I want. After doing this, I go into Windows Explorer and My Computer and - Bingo! - I have the names I wanted. But ... after rebooting, the names went back to their generic "Removable Disk". And when I did REGEDIT again, I saw that all of the changes I made had been removed! So, what "protection" could be in place to delete Registry changes that were manually made the next time the machine boots? How can I bypass this to make my changes permanent? By the way, I spent over one hour with Gateway in a Tech Chat, close to another hour on a toll-call, and then 2 emails to a supposedly higher level Tech Support. They don't have a clue. Now they want me to call another line and give my credit card, or call a 900-number at $3/min. I don't think so - I didn't just fall off the turnip truck. XP's settings are different from other versions of Windows. I believe that the drive icon and label specifications have to be set in two different locations for XP. Duplicate the drive letter keys with DefaultIcon and DefaultLabel settings under HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Applications \ Explorer.exe \ Drives \ DriveIcons as well as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ DriveIcons This works for me (SP1 and SP2). I've had problems with some apps that control certain types of drives replacing these icons, but I've worked that out in the app. It's a user-by-user replacement, so (I think) the HKCU setting actually controls the icons and labels displayed, regardless of a conflict with the HKLM settings, so long as something is set in HKLM. (I.e., each user can have different icons and labels.) Joe Earnest |
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