Neat registry hack allows USB Mass Storage mode, direct loading of media on Windows Phone 7

November 18, 2010 | By Surur

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WPCentral has revealed an interesting hack on the desktop side which allows full access to the media libraries on on a Windows phone 7 device.

The instructions are as follows:

Open the registry editor on your PC by typing regedit in your Start menu
go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB; search forZuneDriver

Now you will modify three entries (note, if you have multiple WP7 phones, you have to do it for each one)

Change ShowInShell from 0 to 1
Change PortableDeviceNameSpaceExcludeFromShell from 1 to 0
Change EnableLegacySupport from 0 to 1

The device, and folders for music, video and images should now show up in explorer, and to enable modifying the files the Zune desktop software simply needs to be closed.

Other files can also be placed there, but will not be accessible on the device, allowing the use at least of the smartphone as a USB drive.

Via WPCentral.com

Thanks Mark for the tip.

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Tagged hack, usb mass storage, windows phone 7

Pedro de la Riva

That's great.

Indeed, the absence of USB mass storage is a terrible downside of WP7. Can't stand it.
Guest

dont have these entries on german Win 7 64 bit!

moonman

You connected at least one "Zune" device, have you?

Guest

yes

Guest

I do have the entry ZUNEDRIVER

but only three different values there.. none of the mentioned

Lennard

+1 for the registry
Lennard

good for you, still doesn't stop me getting a windows phone 7 device

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