driveletters

Rick "Nutcase" Rogers used his keyboard to write :

> Um, if you remove the drive letter, then there is no root directory for the
> folders/files on that drive. Without a root, there is no way to index or
> catalog the files on the drive, so there is no means for the system to locate
> them.

> --
> Best of Luck,

> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
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> "chriske911" <chriske911nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:mn.3cc17d6abab8ce7b.52299@yahoo.com...

>>I love the new explorer in vista with all the 'new' features
>> I have been trying out a lot of combinations tweaking the UI of explorer to
>> fit my needs
>> one of them was removing the driveletters (finally)
>> now I am looking for a way to open up a folder from the run dialog box
>> without using the drive letter
>> I use that way to open up hidden folders instead of showing them all in
>> explorer
>> anyone who knows how to do this?
>>
>> thnx
>>
>>

it is just a GUI hack AFAIK
so the drive letters are still used or so I think
I did see that windows makes use of the "device\harddisk1\volume\....."
syntax more often to retrieve items
that's a good thing

now to get rid of the drive letters entirely would be awesome
something for the next release most likely ;-)
when they will be truly giving up on backward compatibility

I just wondered that if I do choose to see no more drive letter within
explorer ever again for as long as I live
and I eventually forgot all about them how would I address a certain
folder under the root of a hard disk or a partition named "whatever"

I'd say I would go to \..\whatever\folder\subfolder\and_so_on
but that didn't work, nor would any other combination I could think off
the funny thing is that you do get to see that there is some retrieval
of foldernames but then you get a error saying that windows could not
find that folder

thnx