Changing Drive Letters in Windows 2000

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If you find the need to change a drive letter, Windows 2000 makes this possible. Here’s how:
In the Control Panel, select Administrative Tools. The Administrative Tools folder will pop up.

In that folder, select Computer Management.
Click on Disk Management and wait for the Logical Disk Manager Service to finish scanning your system’s drives. You will then see a list of the drives available in your system. 1. Click on the drive with the drive letter you want to change.

2. Right click and select the Change Drive Letter and Path… option.

3. All drive letters linked to that drive will be listed on this popup screen.

4. Click on the drive letter you want to change and click on Edit.

5. Click on the drive letter and a whole list of available drive letter choices will now appear.

6. Select the drive letter you want for this drive.

7. Click OK and your drive will have a new drive letter.

Notes: You will not be able to change the drive letter of your system or boot volume. However, the drive letters of all other drives and drive volumes are changeable.

If you want to change the drive letter of a CD/DVD-ROM or ZIP drive, make sure you insert a disk first. The drive letter cannot be changed unless there’s a disk in the drive.

Some software may not work properly if you change any drive letter. So, you may need to do some registry editing to get that software to work with the new drive letter. If that doesn’t work, you will have to reinstall the software using the new drive letter or reset the drive letter back to its original drive letter.

Clear Run History In Windows

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We all use windows run prompt to launch various windows utilities like command prompt, msconfig but whenever we type a command in run prompt it gets saved in Windows as Run History as Run MRU (Most Recently Used) List.

Many of my friends gets annoyed to see recently typed commands in windows run as they do not want others to see what they had typed in run.

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Today, we will tell you all the ways to clear run prompt history in Windows XP and Vista.

There two methods to clear the windows run history, the first method is via windows registry to clear windows run and second method involves a free utility MRU Blaster which lets you clear windows run history

Let’s discuss both of these methods to clear the recently typed commands in run

Method 1: (Geeky Way)

Clear Windows Run Via Registry (For XP and Vista)

1. Open Start Menu >> Run, type regedit and press Enter

2. Navigate to the following path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\RunMRU\

3. You will see various registry key values in the right pane, as there are in the snapshot shown below

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Double click the key MRUList and delete everything in the value data box

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Your run history will be cleared, if still it does not clear the run history, the open the same registry path again and delete everything except the key named Default

Method 2: (Simple Way)

Clear Windows Run History With MRU Blaster (For XP and Vista)

Playing with registry can be dangerous specially when you don’t know much about windows registry. MRU Blaster on the other hand clear all the recently opened files list and windows run history also.

1. Download MRU Blaster from this link

2. Install MRU Blaster and Run it

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3. Click the Scan button and then click the Clean Now button to clear the windows run history

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4. That’s it, your windows run prompt history will be cleared, exit MRU Blaster.

Note: You can configure MRU Blaster by clicking the Settings and configure the scan options

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