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Old June 12th 07, 05:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
The2Daves
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Default Drive Icons in MY CMPUTER

Not sure how it happened but the drive icons I used to see when opening MY
COMPUTER, have been replaced by a generic icons.

Is there a way to restore the original system icons for the hard drives that
were installed with XP Pro?

I've searched on the net but most of the sites suggest editing the registry,
and I'm not really comfortable doing that ...
not to mention, I don't really understand the changes they tell me to make.

Thanks-Dave
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Old June 12th 07, 05:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
TOAO
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Default Drive Icons in MY CMPUTER

Hi ... Howabout you try out Tweak UI from Microsoft , The program has an
option to repair icons , Have a look at the website below

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

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"the2daves" wrote in message
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Not sure how it happened but the drive icons I used to see when opening MY
COMPUTER, have been replaced by a generic icons.

Is there a way to restore the original system icons for the hard drives
that
were installed with XP Pro?

I've searched on the net but most of the sites suggest editing the
registry,
and I'm not really comfortable doing that ...
not to mention, I don't really understand the changes they tell me to
make.

Thanks-Dave



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Old June 12th 07, 08:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
The2Daves
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Default Drive Icons in MY CMPUTER

Thanks for the suggestion. I already tried that and it didn't work.
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Old June 12th 07, 11:39 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
TOAO
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Default Drive Icons in MY CMPUTER

See if this works

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/shelliconfix.htm

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Thanks for the suggestion. I already tried that and it didn't work.



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Old June 13th 07, 12:47 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Ayush
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Default Drive Icons in MY CMPUTER

[the2daves] wrote-:
Not sure how it happened but the drive icons I used to see when opening MY
COMPUTER, have been replaced by a generic icons.

Is there a way to restore the original system icons for the hard drives that
were installed with XP Pro?

I've searched on the net but most of the sites suggest editing the registry,
and I'm not really comfortable doing that ...
not to mention, I don't really understand the changes they tell me to make.


Start- Run- Regedit
Delete all subkeys of :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons


Good Luck, Ayush.
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Old June 13th 07, 01:01 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
The2Daves
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Default Drive Icons in MY CMPUTER

I gave it a try but after starting it up it gave a drop down menu for the
icon's to fix, unfortunately the Drives weren't listed. I ran it anyway
since it did show My Computer in the drop down with the hope that it would
also repair the drives....NO LUCK!

Thanks again TOAO
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Old June 13th 07, 12:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
The2Daves
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Default Drive Icons in MY CMPUTER

hello Ayush,

Thank you for your response.
I deleted all the subkeys you suggested but it didn't repair the icons for
the hard drives, I still have the generic ones
..
I have another copy of WinXP loaded on a different drive, did regedit on
that, checked for the key, noticed that there as
no key "DriveIcons" for what you suggested and tried to also delete that key
on the OS that's having the problem....
still have the generic icons.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks-Dave
 




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