Hello! I like to have a clean look on my computer and have hidden everything irrelevant to me via various online guides. This means that the only...

Hello!

I like to have a clean look on my computer and have hidden everything irrelevant to me via various online guides. This means that the only thing I have visible in the left panel of the file explorer is the following:

Quick access

• Desktop
• Downloaded files Dropbox This computer
• C:
• D:

Now however, I have bought a new external hard drive that is plugged in via USB and then the same view looks as follows:

Quick access

• Desk
• Downloaded files Dropbox This computer
• C:
• D:
• E: E:

My OCD brain is crippled by the fact that I am forced to have double sets of the external hard drive. I want all the hard drives under "This Computer" and nowhere else. But the external drive take a place as a secondary main menu in the file explorer. Does you have a good registery editor guide or other help that allows me to hide the "E-disk" that lies alone outside "This computer" and thus only have it visible under "This computer"?

Grateful for your help.

Hi! Just went to bed. Will get back to you tomorrow with some possible times. Thanks

Hello again Charles!
I live in sweden and therefor has time-zone UTC +01.00.
The time here right now is about 7.10 in the evening so I understand if there will be some trouble finding times we both are online.
However I would here like to discribe my issue a bit more.

I know my way around windows very well and I have my settings just the way I want it.
The only thing I need help trying to fix is the issue filed. But since something happened when I posted the text on your website It might be hard to understand what Im after. So here goes again.

In the windows file explorer's left panel I have the following, say menues if thats what they are called.
Quick Access
- Desktop
- Downloaded files

Dropbox

This computer
- C:
- D:
- E:

E:

The sub-menues are the ones with "-" before them.
As you can see, the "E"-drive is pressent twice. Once as a sub-menu under "This computer" and once as its own main-menu just below that.
This is what bugs me. The "E"-drive is an external drive I have.

The trick Im looking for is to hide the second "E"-drive. The one that is on its own like a main-menu and only have this drive be shown as a sub-menu to "This computer".

I just feel that there must be a way to change/add/delete some entry in the registry of windows to make this happen.
And hopefully it will not reappear if I disconnect the drive and reconnect it again.

Here is a image link for you. The red highlighted drive is the one I like to disappear. The text is in swedish but I think you get the point.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lfvg81pqymtnm1n/explorer_left%20panel.jpg?dl=0

Hopefully you will have some trick up your sleave and can help me with this issue.

Hi!

No it is not a recovery drive. 
It is a external drive. 

I have two drives in my PC, which are C: and D:.

E: is my external drive I have for backup of my files. It is connected via USB.

It is unplugged right now. And of course there is no E-drive at all showing now. 
And if I plug it in again, it shows up as a sub-menu under "This computer" and as a own main menu as is the irritationg problem. 

There is no functionality problem at all. Only the fact that I can it is visible twice. 

So im pretty sure its just some registry hack to not make it show up as a stand alone main menu. 

Sorry but I dont think you understand the problem.
This is a new drive bought two days ago. The first thing I did was to plug it in and it showed up in the file explorer with the letter E.

Then I formated it. As you I also hate bloateware and shit.

In disc-manager there is only one partition. The drive is not the problem.
It doesnt matter if I press the first E or the second E in file explorer. I end up in the E-drive. Im very sertain this is just a visibility think by the file explorer.

I tried connnectiong my other externa drive and this is what heppened.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/coopf4wy2ktrsv6/another_external_drive.png?dl=0

Testing a thing, be right back.

This is a brand new computer since a week back. I built it my self, installed it my self and I would have noticed if something was wrong with it.
I connected my second external drive to my laptop and as I thought, it is the exact same thing there. And Im pretty sure it has always been this way what I can remember.
Here is the link so you can se.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5y7bhwukcwcbtfi/laptop.png?dl=0
The only thing is that it gets the letter D on my laptop since I only got one internal drive on the laptop. But it shows up both as a sub-menu in This Computer (Den här datorn) in swedish and as a stand alone menu.
If you have a USB-stick or external drive, try and plug it in, I really think it will behave the same way as for me?

Just put in a USB-stick as well. It got asigned as the G-drive and it shows up two times just as the other two external drives.

Sure

Woho, now I have something to try. Just have to make a reset point before i change something in the registry :)
Be right back :)

No problem, just hoping it will work :)

Yay It worked :)
Thank you very much for your help :)
Exactly the thing I was looking for, just have to take som screenshots of this now so I save it for the future. Will surely want to do it in the future again :)

Once again!
Thanks :)