My documents icon changed to Black

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Matt Wininger

The my documents icon on both the desktop and in the file
pane of windows explorer has changed to a black
outline/silhouette. I just installed SP4 and all other
critical updates. I'm not sure which one it happened
after. What gives? Thanks, Matt
 
I have been able to cause this. There is a dll called mydocs.dll where the My Documents folder is obtained. The way I fixed it was to pull the icon out of that file and in the registry point to that icon. I doubt you want to try this. But the place to find the CLSID for the My Doucuments folder is here:

http://www.virtualplastic.net/html/icn_reg.html

It was most likely a result of an update to IE 6. Look in your history at the Windows Update site for the latest IE patch you installed and intall the one prior to that one if you can. If not then install again the last one you installed.
 
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