Hide Drive Letters in Windows 10

Edited by Lukward Thomason, VisiHow, Eng

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Steps

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    We open File Explorer by double-clicking "This PC"
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    We will see that we have several drives, and that all of them have drive letters. For example, we have "Local Disk (C:)", "Local Disk (D:)", "DVD RW Drive (E:)", and "CD Drive (F:)".
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    To hide the letter labels, we need to right-click the lower left-hand corner of the screen
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    We click "Control Panel"
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    Now, we need to click "Appearance and Personalization"
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    Then, we need to click "File Explorer Options"
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    We click the "View" tab
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    Then, we might need to scroll down through "Advanced settings"
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    We're looking for a line that says, "Show drive letters".
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    In this case, we uncheck "Show drive letters"
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    Then, we click "OK"
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    The drive letters are no longer in File Explorer.
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This concludes our tutorial on how to hide drive letters on Windows 10 computers. Thank you for watching VisiHow! If you have any other comments or questions, please leave them in the comments section below.

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Recent edits by: VisiHow, Lukward Thomason

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