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Ok, this has driven me to the point of posting a new message. When I click
on My Computer and view the drives, my DVD drive, CD drive, and Mobile Device
under the Other heading all have generic "unknown" icons instead of the
correct drive icon. Everything else is showing up normally.
Everything I have found on this topic points to finding the file
"autorun.inf" in the root directly of the drive with the icon problem and
deleting it. Since these are DVD, CD and Mobile Device drives/folders I am
having no luck-- unless I am doing it wrong. I have changed the view
settings to allow me to see EVERYTHING system and file extension related and
still do NOT find this file in association with these 3 icon problems.
One of the MVPs has a site with a fix dating back to Oct 04 that talks about
deleting registry keys, then rebooting. I am assuming those keys are either
not needed, or windows sees they are missing and creates a registry entry for
the drive without an icon associated??? Maybe I am off here? In either
case, I don't have either one of those registry keys. Do I need to add them?
Any help with this frustration would be appreciated. And, no, I cannot fix
the problem by simply going back to an earlier restore point. Wish it was
that easy.
Thanks in advance,
on My Computer and view the drives, my DVD drive, CD drive, and Mobile Device
under the Other heading all have generic "unknown" icons instead of the
correct drive icon. Everything else is showing up normally.
Everything I have found on this topic points to finding the file
"autorun.inf" in the root directly of the drive with the icon problem and
deleting it. Since these are DVD, CD and Mobile Device drives/folders I am
having no luck-- unless I am doing it wrong. I have changed the view
settings to allow me to see EVERYTHING system and file extension related and
still do NOT find this file in association with these 3 icon problems.
One of the MVPs has a site with a fix dating back to Oct 04 that talks about
deleting registry keys, then rebooting. I am assuming those keys are either
not needed, or windows sees they are missing and creates a registry entry for
the drive without an icon associated??? Maybe I am off here? In either
case, I don't have either one of those registry keys. Do I need to add them?
Any help with this frustration would be appreciated. And, no, I cannot fix
the problem by simply going back to an earlier restore point. Wish it was
that easy.
Thanks in advance,