The 'My Music' folder has lost it's icon on the start menu

[Curley_Boy 0]

The link to the 'My Music' folder on the XP start menu seems to have lost it's icon (you know usually it's a pic of a folder with a music note overlayed on it). It's just a blank folder now.

 

Also the same if you view it in My Documents through Windows Explorer or in the Open dialog boxes.

 

I can't remember when this started. I had been playing about with Stardock's Icon XP before it expired, but it restored all the other icons perfectly.

 

The only other thing I can think of is that I moved my user profile directory from the usual C:\Documents and Settings\... to my secondary HDD. Again though no other programs or system components have compained.

 

I thought it was possible to change the icon pic by using a registry tweak (like with other 'special' system folders (ie Recycle Bin), but I haven't a clue where to start looking.

 

Any help appriciated.

[sapiens74 0]

Instal power toys, and use tweak ui to rebuild icons.

 

 

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

[CUViper 0]

It's actually stored in a folder customization file. Create a file called "Desktop.ini" in that directory, and put the following text in it:

Code:

[DeleteOnCopy]

Owner=CUViper

Personalized=13

PersonalizedName=My Music

[.ShellClassInfo]

InfoTip=@Shell32.dll,-12689

IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll

IconIndex=-237

Of course change the owner to match your own username. Now get to a command prompt in that directory and type "attrib +s +h Desktop.ini" to hide the file, so you don't accidentaly lose it again...

[Curley_Boy 0]

Thankyou to sapiens74 I already had tweakxp installed... why on earth didn't I think of using that first... *sigh* forever overlooking the obvious!

 

CUViper I had a look at the desktop.ini file and aside for the username entry (obviously) both my file and your description of it were identical.