Drive letters play a good role in identifying a specific hard drive. You can also easily come to know which drive contains what files by its name. However, if you have already renamed your drives, then perhaps drive letters don’t matter a lot. Whatever would be the reason, if you want to hide drive letters in your Windows 10 PC, then this guide will be very helpful for you. Later, you can also show drive letters with just a few mouse clicks.
You can hide or show drive letters by accessing Folder Options window. The steps covered in this guide will help you how to access Folder Options window and then show or hide drive letters. In the meanwhile, you can have a look at the screenshot visible below.
As you can see, earlier there were drive letters, but later all drive letters were removed.
If you also want to do the same, the follow the steps mentioned below.
Steps To Show or Hide Drive Letters In Windows 10:
1). Open File Explorer. Its hotkey is Win+E.
2). When File Explorer is opened, click on View tab, and then tap on Options.
3). Folder Options window will open.
4). In Folder Options window, select View tab. List of options will visible under Advanced Settings. Scroll down the list to find “Show drive letters” option. This option is enabled by default, because of which drive letters are visible. Uncheck this option, apply and save new setting.
This is it! You don’t have to refresh File Explorer or sign out and then sign in to see the changes. Just open File Explorer and you can see that drive letters are not visible.
When you have to show drive letters again, follow the above steps, select Show drive letters option and save it.
So this is how you can show or hide drive letters in your Windows 10 PC. Try it and also help others.
