How do I programmatically change the label of a mapped drive?

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how to change mapped drive label from command line?

How might one control the label for mapped drives as they appear in My Computer, from the command line? The goal is to have the drive letter at the beginning of the phrase instead of the end, so when navigating with the keyboard one simply types the drive letter to jump to that item in the list. So, for example: net use x: \\servername\skunkworks will show this in My Computer: skunkworks on 'Long descriptive name of file server (servername)' (X:) but what we want is something like: X: Skunkworks...

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You can actually change this per drive mapping with a name of your choice. We do this if customers want...

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If you go into my computer you can right click on the drive and choose rename. Hopefully this helps.

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