Remove duplicate Drive Letter entry from Explorer in Windows 11/10

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Users on Windows eleven/10 may detect that the same Bulldoze letter of the alphabet may get listed twice while opening the File Explorer – Once under This PC and over again separately as a Removable Drive. At times, even the Hard Drives announced twice. If you're seeing duplicate drives in File Explorer, y'all tin can stop Windows 11/x from showing the USB drive twice, by following this tutorial.

Remove duplicate Drive Letter entry from Explorer

If your Drives announced twice in the Navigation Pane of Windows xi/x Explorer you may try these suggestions. Delight note that the method involves introducing changes in the registry editor. Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using information technology. So create a system restore point before proceeding further.

In the search box of the Windows taskbar type regedit, and and so printing Enter key to bring upwards the Registry Editor. Alternatively, printing Win+R to bring up the Run dialog box, blazon 'regedit' and hitting Enter primal.

In the Registry Editor, navigate to the post-obit Path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\DelegateFolders

Nether DelegateFolder key you should find the following key –

{F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83}

Correct-click on the in a higher place-mentioned key then click the Delete button to delete the key. When prompted with a confirmation dialog, click Yes push to delete the key.

Deleting the primal should remove extra USB drive entry from File Explorer in Windows ten.

If you are running Windows 11/10 64-flake, practise the same thing here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\DelegateFolders

Still, if you still notice the bulldoze entry actualization twice, simply sign out from your account and sign in, or restart Windows Explorer once over again. To do and so, open Chore Director, click More than details, find the General tab, under it locate Windows Explorer entry, right-click on the entry and then click Restart.

Let us know if the method worked for you lot by writing in the comments section below.

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