XP + Change Drive Icons (Help)

Hey Guys,
I have a question. I have a friend that's laptop hard drive icon changed on his second partition (D: ). The C: drive icon is ok. I have researched the net and figured out how to do a regedit hack to set it to whatever you want, but we don't know how it changed to begin with.

Thats the first problem. The second problem is:

Does anybody know where on an XP system you can find the default XP Icon for drive? I have been searching for hours and can't find it anywhere.

Anybody have a clue?

Thanks

 

for ur first problem see this page for repairing the icon cache, there are also some programs that can do this for u (iconpackager or tweak ui xp)

for ur second problem, the icon should be located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll

 

Any of these might help too.

Take your pick from here

http://icone.goldenweb.it/index_file/l/en/d2/hardware/c/hard_drive/default.html

Or like this

Changing your hard drive's icon

http://www.spcug.org/reviews/vlba9804.htm

Change a Hard Drive's Icon

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1847172,00.asp


StevieO

 

I followed the instructions but there is no ShellIconCache file or folder at all.

I also tried to set the DefaultIcon key in the reg key to "C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll,188"

Is there a different file within Shell32.dll I need to point to?

Still no joy

 

the shell32.dll has many icons within it.

have u tried using tweak ui xp?

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/6707/tweak9ro.jpg

 

My friend and I would like to thank everyone for the help.


The problem was: There was a CD worth of install info that was copied to the d: drive. There was an autorun.inf file that was included and set the icon to a different icon than wanted.

We deleted the file and it works fine now

Thanks again