Shell Folder Icons Missing

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Hi, I've moved all of my user folders (documents, music etc) to a network
location using both the right click and drag and drop method. Everything
seems to be OK, except instead of the new blue/green icons, the folders now
have the normal yellow icons...

This wouldn't be much of a problem, but the Links pane in explorer shows
these icons (the desktop folder shows up with a BIN con).

Any ideas of how I can fix this?

Cheers,

Paul
 
The folders get their icon info from the hidden, sytem file within the
folder named desktop.ini. Not sure how or if that info is used across a
network. Desktop.ini for the Desktop folder contains the following:


[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21769
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-183

Maybe the server is trying to supply the icon info but it doesn't have the
imageres.dll file???

For a workaround, open your Favorite Links folders and modify the icon
associated with the shortcut via its properties dialog. The 'Change Icon'
dialog may default to shell32.dll but you can browse to imageres.dll.
 
Thanks for that...the desktop.ini files already contain that information, so
I don't know why it's not dsplaying the icons. I tried the workaround for
the Links folder and yes, it does work, but the strange thing is that looking
at the desktop.ini file for that folder before and after the workaround, the
info is the same:

---------------------------------------
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21810
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-185
DefaultDropEffect=4
[LocalizedFileNames]
[email protected],-21816
[email protected],-9031
Recently [email protected],-32813
[email protected],-21790
[email protected],-21779
[email protected],-21770
---------------------------------------
....so I don't know why it should make a difference?

Maybe I need to run a "TweakUI"-type "Rebuild Icons" type tool.

The other strange thing is that since moving all the user profile folders to
a NAS all of the usual system folders are being displayed permanently
(desktop.ini, $RECYCLE.BIN) no matter what the folder options are (they are
set to hide protected operating system files, do not show hidden files and
folders and the files that are showing have the hidden attribute ticked...).

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Paul

Keith Miller MVP said:
The folders get their icon info from the hidden, sytem file within the
folder named desktop.ini. Not sure how or if that info is used across a
network. Desktop.ini for the Desktop folder contains the following:


[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21769
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-183

Maybe the server is trying to supply the icon info but it doesn't have the
imageres.dll file???

For a workaround, open your Favorite Links folders and modify the icon
associated with the shortcut via its properties dialog. The 'Change Icon'
dialog may default to shell32.dll but you can browse to imageres.dll.


--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

indigoblue said:
Hi, I've moved all of my user folders (documents, music etc) to a network
location using both the right click and drag and drop method. Everything
seems to be OK, except instead of the new blue/green icons, the folders
now
have the normal yellow icons...

This wouldn't be much of a problem, but the Links pane in explorer shows
these icons (the desktop folder shows up with a BIN con).

Any ideas of how I can fix this?

Cheers,

Paul
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
indigoblue said:
Thanks for that...the desktop.ini files already contain that information,
so
I don't know why it's not dsplaying the icons. I tried the workaround for
the Links folder and yes, it does work, but the strange thing is that
looking
at the desktop.ini file for that folder before and after the workaround,
the
info is the same:
Click to expand...
Yes, it will be. The workaround changed the icon for the SHORTCUT that
resides in the Favorite Links folder, it did nothing to the folder the
shortcut points to.
The other strange thing is that since moving all the user profile folders
to
a NAS all of the usual system folders are being displayed permanently
(desktop.ini, $RECYCLE.BIN) no matter what the folder options are (they
are
set to hide protected operating system files, do not show hidden files and
folders and the files that are showing have the hidden attribute
ticked...).
Click to expand...

Just try toggling the settings, reboot, toggle again -- the general solution
to changes not 'taking' :)

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]





Keith Miller MVP said:
The folders get their icon info from the hidden, sytem file within the
folder named desktop.ini. Not sure how or if that info is used across a
network. Desktop.ini for the Desktop folder contains the following:


[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21769
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-183

Maybe the server is trying to supply the icon info but it doesn't have
the
imageres.dll file???

For a workaround, open your Favorite Links folders and modify the icon
associated with the shortcut via its properties dialog. The 'Change
Icon'
dialog may default to shell32.dll but you can browse to imageres.dll.


--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

indigoblue said:
Hi, I've moved all of my user folders (documents, music etc) to a
network
location using both the right click and drag and drop method.
Everything
seems to be OK, except instead of the new blue/green icons, the folders
now
have the normal yellow icons...

This wouldn't be much of a problem, but the Links pane in explorer
shows
these icons (the desktop folder shows up with a BIN con).

Any ideas of how I can fix this?

Cheers,

Paul
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Thanks for your help. Still no joy, which is strange as I would have thought
that this scenario is fairly common (tried it on all pcs attached to the NAS
and no joy...). Still getting system file appearing when they should be
hidden...

Paul

Keith Miller MVP said:
indigoblue said:
Thanks for that...the desktop.ini files already contain that information,
so
I don't know why it's not dsplaying the icons. I tried the workaround for
the Links folder and yes, it does work, but the strange thing is that
looking
at the desktop.ini file for that folder before and after the workaround,
the
info is the same:
Click to expand...
Yes, it will be. The workaround changed the icon for the SHORTCUT that
resides in the Favorite Links folder, it did nothing to the folder the
shortcut points to.
The other strange thing is that since moving all the user profile folders
to
a NAS all of the usual system folders are being displayed permanently
(desktop.ini, $RECYCLE.BIN) no matter what the folder options are (they
are
set to hide protected operating system files, do not show hidden files and
folders and the files that are showing have the hidden attribute
ticked...).
Click to expand...

Just try toggling the settings, reboot, toggle again -- the general solution
to changes not 'taking' :)

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]





Keith Miller MVP said:
The folders get their icon info from the hidden, sytem file within the
folder named desktop.ini. Not sure how or if that info is used across a
network. Desktop.ini for the Desktop folder contains the following:


[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21769
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-183

Maybe the server is trying to supply the icon info but it doesn't have
the
imageres.dll file???

For a workaround, open your Favorite Links folders and modify the icon
associated with the shortcut via its properties dialog. The 'Change
Icon'
dialog may default to shell32.dll but you can browse to imageres.dll.


--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

Hi, I've moved all of my user folders (documents, music etc) to a
network
location using both the right click and drag and drop method.
Everything
seems to be OK, except instead of the new blue/green icons, the folders
now
have the normal yellow icons...

This wouldn't be much of a problem, but the Links pane in explorer
shows
these icons (the desktop folder shows up with a BIN con).

Any ideas of how I can fix this?

Cheers,

Paul
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
indigoblue said:
Hi, I've moved all of my user folders (documents, music etc) to a network
location using both the right click and drag and drop method. Everything
seems to be OK, except instead of the new blue/green icons, the folders now
have the normal yellow icons...

This wouldn't be much of a problem, but the Links pane in explorer shows
these icons (the desktop folder shows up with a BIN con).

Any ideas of how I can fix this?

Cheers,

Paul
Click to expand...
I had the same problem on my local secondary partition when I moved
stuff. I realized that during the "move" I was telling Vista to not copy
over the file that gives the Vista blue icon.

This is what I did. I reset the location of my shell folders back to
default, and chose not to copy the data files back. This reset the icons
to blue, and the locations back to my user folder. I then went back to
properties for each shell folder, and then moved, a second time, each
shell location to the new location on the other partition and this time
made sure that I allowed every file to get copied to the new location. I
don't know if this will work on a network.
 
Hi Paul,

Double-check if the SYSTEM attribute is set for the desktop.ini file. Open a Command Prompt window and change to the shell folder (Documents). Type "attrib desktop.ini". This displays the file attributes.

By default the file has "A SH" attributes set.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Thanks for your help. Still no joy, which is strange as I would have thought
that this scenario is fairly common (tried it on all pcs attached to the NAS
and no joy...). Still getting system file appearing when they should be
hidden...

Paul
 
This works on a network drive as well. Basically you are just copying the
newly created desktop.ini file per the procedure outlined above.
 
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