Archive for February, 2010

How to: show the drive letters first in Windows Explorer

In some situations our customers want to see the drive letters first, instead of the drive name. For example (C:) SYSTEM or SYSTEM (C:). You can edit this with the following registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
“ShowDriveLettersFirst”=dword:00000004

       

How to: SCCM 2007 disable package storing on the system drive

By default System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM) uses the drive which has the most free space left to store the packages. To avoid SCCM storing of packages on the system drive, you can create a file on the root of the system drive, called no_sms_on_drive.sms.

Now you’re sure that the system drive will not be used by SCCM!