Local Disk C: Icon is gone

After installing an external had drive (which is being used as the central
back up devise), the icon for the c-drive disappeared. It's shows now simply
a blank icon with the old Windows Picture(s) and I can not see any way to
re-assign any icon or the default icon back. Right clicking on the the drive
does not help as it does not give you the option of customizing.

Pichi;559165 Wrote:
> After installing an external had drive (which is being used as the
> central
> back up devise), the icon for the c-drive disappeared. It's shows now
> simply
> a blank icon with the old Windows Picture(s) and I can not see any way
> to
> re-assign any icon or the default icon back. Right clicking on the the
> drive
> does not help as it does not give you the option of customizing.

Hi Pichi,

If your drive is still recognized as the c:\ drive, then you can
manually change the icon back to the default drive icon. This will show
you how. Use "C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll,30" (no quotes) for the
default C:\ drive icon full path.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/11...on-change.html

Shawn


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Hi Shwan,

followed to link, did what you asked me to do (crating all these folders
which were not there in regedit) and it still has the same issue. Now, when I
for instance want to change a folder and I get to the point where I can see
the icons I have available, at "0" would be the one shown right now instead
of the correct icon which by the way in my case is somewhere at position 80
not 30 using your counting method. But even changing the value to 80 would
not do it. Not even with restarting. Now, if there is a default icon,
shouldn't there be also a defaulyt path, whithout having to create all of
what was mentioned on the web page you linked to ? Anyway, thanks for you
advise and I hope there might be another solution.

"brink" wrote:

>
> Pichi;559165 Wrote:
> > After installing an external had drive (which is being used as the
> > central
> > back up devise), the icon for the c-drive disappeared. It's shows now
> > simply
> > a blank icon with the old Windows Picture(s) and I can not see any way
> > to
> > re-assign any icon or the default icon back. Right clicking on the the
> > drive
> > does not help as it does not give you the option of customizing.
>
> Hi Pichi,
>
> If your drive is still recognized as the c:\ drive, then you can
> manually change the icon back to the default drive icon. This will show
> you how. Use "C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll,30" (no quotes) for the
> default C:\ drive icon full path.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/11...on-change.html
>
> Shawn
>
>
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>
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>

Pichi;559165 Wrote:
> After installing an external had drive (which is being used as the
> central
> back up devise), the icon for the c-drive disappeared. It's shows now
> simply
> a blank icon with the old Windows Picture(s) and I can not see any way
> to
> re-assign any icon or the default icon back. Right clicking on the the
> drive
> does not help as it does not give you the option of customizing.


If you used the File Transfer Program to transfer files from an XP
computer, an "autorun" file could have been created. When you open your
Local Disk, look for an AutoRun file, much like what you might find on a
CD/DVD. Make sure this file doesn't reference an icon type. If there is
a file in there, you can either change the extension type to an
arbitrary value (.old), or move it to the recycle bin in case you need
it later (so you can keep the file and modify the icon reference). Then
Restart your computer.


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