Re: Odd shared drive behaviour

[Sharon F]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:03:04 -0700, Dennis Taylor wrote:

> I've got a new WinXP Pro box on my network. I've shared out a directory.
> When I access that shared directory from my win2k boxes, I get an odd
> display of one of the subdirectory icons (see attached). Note especially the
> cryptic information at the bottom of the window. "My Music", BTW, is a
> directory. I can open it and look inside it -- it just displays funny. Any
> ideas?

The folder is customized in XP with the contents of its desktop.ini file.
Apparently, it refers to an icon located in shell32 that is not available
from the Win2000 machine. Instead of the designated icon being used, the
default windows icon is being substituted.

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Sharon F
MS-MVP - Windows XP Shell/User

[Dennis Taylor]

"Sharon F" > wrote in message
.. .
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:03:04 -0700, Dennis Taylor wrote:
>
> > I've got a new WinXP Pro box on my network. I've shared out a directory.
> > When I access that shared directory from my win2k boxes, I get an odd
> > display of one of the subdirectory icons (see attached). Note especially
the
> > cryptic information at the bottom of the window. "My Music", BTW, is a
> > directory. I can open it and look inside it -- it just displays funny.
Any
> > ideas?
>
> The folder is customized in XP with the contents of its desktop.ini file.
> Apparently, it refers to an icon located in shell32 that is not available
> from the Win2000 machine. Instead of the designated icon being used, the
> default windows icon is being substituted.
>

Hm. I wonder if there's a patch or update to Win2000 that would solve this?
It seems unlikely that Microsoft wouldn't have noticed this incompatibility
(or had it reported to them). Unless it's Dell's fault...

Is the Shell32.dll strictly an icon repository, or does it have actual
executable code?

[Sharon F]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 21:30:26 -0700, Dennis Taylor wrote:

> "Sharon F" > wrote in message
> .. .
>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:03:04 -0700, Dennis Taylor wrote:
>>
>>> I've got a new WinXP Pro box on my network. I've shared out a directory.
>>> When I access that shared directory from my win2k boxes, I get an odd
>>> display of one of the subdirectory icons (see attached). Note especially
> the
>>> cryptic information at the bottom of the window. "My Music", BTW, is a
>>> directory. I can open it and look inside it -- it just displays funny.
> Any
>>> ideas?
>>
>> The folder is customized in XP with the contents of its desktop.ini file.
>> Apparently, it refers to an icon located in shell32 that is not available
>> from the Win2000 machine. Instead of the designated icon being used, the
>> default windows icon is being substituted.
>>
>
> Hm. I wonder if there's a patch or update to Win2000 that would solve this?
> It seems unlikely that Microsoft wouldn't have noticed this incompatibility
> (or had it reported to them). Unless it's Dell's fault...
>
> Is the Shell32.dll strictly an icon repository, or does it have actual
> executable code?

Shell32, just like any other DLL file, contains a code library that
executables can call on. This particular DLL file also houses most of the
default icons used within the Windows shell. I'm just guessing on why the
correct icon is not showing. The designation might be the same or different
in Win2000 but I don't know for sure since I've never used it.

Below is a copy of my desktop.ini file for the My Music folder. May want to
check yours for extra spaces (should be no extras in a line or at the end
of a line) and for extra line breaks (only one return at end of each line).

[DeleteOnCopy]
Owner=Sharon
Personalized=13
PersonalizedName=My Music
[.ShellClassInfo]
,-12689
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-237

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Sharon F
MS-MVP - Windows XP Shell/User