[Curley_Boy]

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]

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



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

[CUViper]

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]

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.