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From: Homer J. Simpson on 25 Aug 2006 11:33
All my hard drive partitions have a custom AUTORUN.INF file in their root
folder, containing something similar to this:

[AutoRun]
Icon=downloads.ico

....so each partition shows up in Explorer with a custom icon instead of the
standard drive one.

Installing IE7 RC1 (released yesterday) seems to have broken that
functionality--my custom icons aren't showing and Explorer has reverted back
to the standard icons.

Anyone else seeing this?


FWIW, I also use desktop.ini files to customize the icon for individual
folders such as this:

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=whatever.ico

....this, however, still seems to work as before.


From: Alec S. on 28 Aug 2006 19:38
"Homer J. Simpson" <root(a)127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:uDz3IvFyGHA.4372(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> All my hard drive partitions have a custom AUTORUN.INF file in their root
> folder, containing something similar to this:

> Installing IE7 RC1 (released yesterday) seems to have broken that
> functionality--my custom icons aren't showing and Explorer has reverted back
> to the standard icons.


Well I don't have IE7 so I can't test it, but you should try rebuilding the IconCache. You can do this with TweakUI (under Repair),
that's the easiest way, or manually by deleting "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\IconCache.db" and rebooting (maybe
just log off/on).


--
Alec S.
news/alec->synetech/cjb/net


From: Black Baptist on 12 Sep 2006 20:42
Homer J. Simpson rambled on in microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize:

> All my hard drive partitions have a custom AUTORUN.INF file in their
> root folder, containing something similar to this:
>
> [AutoRun]
> Icon=downloads.ico
>
> ...so each partition shows up in Explorer with a custom icon instead of
> the standard drive one.
>
> Installing IE7 RC1 (released yesterday) seems to have broken that
> functionality--my custom icons aren't showing and Explorer has reverted
> back to the standard icons.
>
> Anyone else seeing this?
>
>
> FWIW, I also use desktop.ini files to customize the icon for individual
> folders such as this:
>
> [.ShellClassInfo]
> IconFile=whatever.ico
>
> ...this, however, still seems to work as before.
>
>

copy and save below as drive.reg you can import it to your registry just
change the DefaultIcon part to what you want.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\A]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\A\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Windows\\Icons\\Floppy.ico,0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\A\DefaultLabel]
@="Drive A"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\C]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\C\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Windows\\Icons\\Hdd.ico,0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\C\DefaultLabel]
@="Drive C"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\D]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\D\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Windows\\Icons\\Cd.ico,0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\D\DefaultLabel]
@="Drive D"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\E]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\E\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Windows\\Icons\\Cd.ico,0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\E\DefaultLabel]
@="Drive E"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\F]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\F\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Windows\\Icons\\Cd.ico,0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\F\DefaultLabel]
@="Drive F"
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