Recovering drive letters

I'm assuming that my experience is typical in regard to what I'm
asking? I've occasionally changed drive letters, mostly on USB drives, and
noticed that the original drive letter was no longer available after the
change. For example, original letter is "G" and it is changed to "N". Going
back and looking at the list of available letters, "G" is no longer listed.

QUESTION: Is it possible to recover those once used drive letters so
they can be used again? If yes, how is this done?

System is a Vista Ultimate 32-bit.

Press the Windows Key + Pause/Break key then Advanced System Setting
Environment Variables, New ( user variables if just for you or syste
variables for all users of your computer ). In the Variable Name bo
type devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices and in the Variable Value type 1
Then you need to OK it twice

Then go to Device Manager, click View and select Show hidden devices
Then you can remove multiple entries for devices and for the one's yo
are not using any more. Take care not to remove any devices you're no
sure about

Hope it help

SIW

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SIW2

Thanks.... great information! :~)

"SIW2" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Press the Windows Key + Pause/Break key then Advanced System Settings
> Environment Variables, New ( user variables if just for you or system
> variables for all users of your computer ). In the Variable Name box
> type devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices and in the Variable Value type 1.
> Then you need to OK it twice.
>
> Then go to Device Manager, click View and select Show hidden devices.
> Then you can remove multiple entries for devices and for the one's you
> are not using any more. Take care not to remove any devices you're not
> sure about.
>
> Hope it helps
>
> SIW2