Re: No drives show in My Computer

Ray

It is difficult to visualise what is being displayed on your computer as
there so many ways Windows Explorer can be customised. Here's some
thoughts.

Are you seeing a left pane and a right pane in Windows Explorer?

In Windows Explorer select View, Explorer Bar, Folders. Does selecting
or deselecting make an improvement?

In Windows Explorer select Tools, Folder Options. On the Tasks tab have
you selected Show common tasks in Folder or Use Classic Windows Folders.
On the View tab under Advanced Settings there are a lot of settings,
which will affect what is displayed. One which may answer one of your
questions is Show Control Panel in My Computer. Is it checked?

Can you display the contents of Control Panel if you select Start,
Settings (not there on all computers), Control Panel?

When you first encountered your display problems was it after a malware
infestation? If yes this could mean you might need to go further than
make adjustments to how you have customised your Windows Explorer
settings.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Ray Parrish wrote:
Hello,

I've asked this question before and gotten some answers none of which
worked, so I've waited a couple months and hope that someone may have
some new information at this point.

When I open My Computer the first page that shows is blank, no drives
show, Control Panel doesn't show, just a blank white page. I can
access any of my drives by dropping down the location list as the
drives all show there.

The File, Open dialogs for some programs also don't see the drives and
show only the Desktop folder.

I've tried to unhide the drives with TweakUI and that didn't work,
and I tried setting the registry entry that controls whether the
drives show with no joy resulting there either.

Does anyone have any idea why My Computer won't show my drives on it's
starting page?

Thanks, Ray Parrish


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