In my Windows Server 2008 R2 system disk usage bar is not showing, when am using tiles view in My Computer.
Earlier it used to show the bar. In details view its showing total size and free space.
I already tried to solve it from these links:
- http://www.eightforums.com/general-support/13797-disk-space-usage-bars-my-computer-missing.html
- http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/disk-space-usage-bar-in-my-computer-is-missing/457ab86b-54c4-4f11-ac52-49739978ad31
- http://www.sevenforums.com/customization/147472-disk-usage-bar-my-computer.html
Nothing solved my issue. Please help.
Best Answer
Open registry editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Drive. On the right you should see a key named TileInfo. This is the key that defines what information will be shown next to the drive in Explorer when View is set to Tiles. From the screenshot you provided it looks like yours may be empty or non-existent (since it isn't displaying used/free space and filesystem either).
By default, the key contains something like this:
System.PercentFull; is the part that displays the disk usage bar - the other two displays the free space as text and the filesystem of the drive, respectively.
If the key does not exist, the steps to create it are as follows:
prop:*System.PercentFull;System.Computer.DecoratedFreeSpace;System.Volume.FileSystem
You may have to reboot after modifying/creating this key, although all I had to do was refresh the Explorer window I had open to see the changes.