Solved How to Hide and Unhide double removable drives in the explorer. (Works on Win 10 & 11)


hader

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An annoying thing; I open my explorer and see my drives (included the removeable ones) but the removable ones are also duplicated at the bottom. Difference is "_> Icon" and "> Icon". Well there is an easy fix for it: (You can hide and unhide them if you want)
Made a short tutorial for this. Maybe other people want to do this also.... :-)

- Start Registry Editor. (RegEdit.exe)
- Search for key; Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\DelegateFolders\{F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83}
- Rename key into; Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\DelegateFolders\{F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83}.old

or....

- Make 2 reg files;
- Hide_Double_Drives_Explorer.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\DelegateFolders\{F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83}.old]
@="Removable Drives"
; This create a new one. Make sure the original one is deleted. (Otherwise there a 2 keys. Explorer shows the drives again if the normal one is also present.)

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\DelegateFolders\{F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83}]
@="Removable Drives"

- Unhide_Double_Drives_Explorer.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\DelegateFolders\{F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83}]
@="Removable Drives"
; This creates the original one again. Make sure the .old one is deleted.

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\DelegateFolders\{F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83}.old]
@="Removable Drives"

Doubleclick onto the .reg files to;
- Hide : Hide_Double_Drives_Explorer.reg
- Unhide : Unhide_Double_Drives_Explorer.reg
 
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Windows 11 Pro. Version: 24H2, Build: 26100.3476
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