Remove drive letter

[JWH]

I have a display that is linked by a USB cable to the computer, enabling me to use USB ports on the side of the display. All those show up fine, but I get a drive letter for the connecting cable, which shows up among the row of available drives. I often click on it by mistake (of course, getting an error message) and want to stop it from displaying. How do I do this?
I disconnected the cable and the drive letter (F:) disappeared, so I am sure that I have the right connection for the drive.

[silencer]

Maybe this option will help you?

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HideRemovableNoMedia=0 When !=0, removable drives like USB card readers will not be shown unless a medium is inserted. Note that CD-ROM drives and floppy disk drives will always be shown. Apply to:
1: Drive button bar
2: Drive dropdown list
4: Search function - Drives
7: All

[JWH]

I added this line:
HideRemovableNoMedia=0 When 7=0
to the "WINCMD.INI" file in the Commander subdirectory and to the other file of the same name under the "AppData\Romaing" subdirectory in the Users directory.
Alas, nothing changed. Did I miss something?

I should add that I did not have this problem before using a similar Dell display.

[MVV]

JWH, open 'Help - About' menu item and read which wincmd.ini is used by your TC. Then open it and find [Configuration] section and add HideRemovableNoMedia=7 to it.

If your monitor's drive letter is always the same, you can hide it using Allowed parameter in wincmd.ini (read more in TC help section 4.b).

[JWH]

Wincmd.ini is under the "roaming" subdirectory, so that is the one I will open.

…And when I typed in the correct line, shut down, and opened, it worked! I had mis-parsed the line of information you gave me.

Thanks for the speedy and, as always, helpful reply.