Drive icon is changed

[churin]

One of the drive icons as displayed on the Windows Explorer's left pane
has been changed for some reason. How can I restore the original icon?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Incorrect or generic Windows icon displayed for a Drive in My Computer
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/driveicon.htm

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[churin]

Thanks for your response. I could not do what the linked reference says
because of the following reasons:

1) The Folder Options has been already set for "Show all files". So this
fix is not applicable to my case.

2) No such folder as "DriveIcons" is in HKLM. Also a folder called
"Drives" is not in explorer.exe in HKCR.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

What's the drive letter?

What kind of drive is it?

Is there an Autorun.inf file in C: or whatever drive that has the incorrect
icon?

I.e C:\autorun.inf

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[Wesley Vogel]

Start | Run | Type: e:\autorun.inf | Click OK |

What happens?

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[churin]

It is one of the three partitions and is used a data drive. There are
two such data drives or D: and E:. The icon for D: is normal but the
one for E: is generic type icon which I want to correct.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

So, do this.

Start | Run | Type: e: | Click OK |
Navigate to autorun.inf | Right click it and select DELETE |
Click YES if you get a prompt.

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Autorun.inf - Notepad is opend and in which the following text is shown:

[autorun]
OPEN=setupSNK.exe
ICON=\SMRTNTKY\fcw.ico
ACTION=Wireless Network Setup Wizard

Start | Run | Type: e:\autorun.inf | Click OK |

What happens?

 

[churin]

Autorun.inf - Notepad is opend and in which the following text is shown:

[autorun]
OPEN=setupSNK.exe
ICON=\SMRTNTKY\fcw.ico
ACTION=Wireless Network Setup Wizard

 

[churin]

That surely fix the problem. I do not have any idea why that file came
to be in that location. I gather that if a file named as autorun.inf is
placed at the root of a drive the drive icon becomes generic type.
Thank you very much for your help.

May I ask one follow up question? Why a file named as "autorun.inf" if
placed at the root of a drive causes the drive icon to change to a
generic type?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Autorun.inf files are normally used on CDs and DVDs. The files are used to
autorun or autoplay the disk as soon as it's placed in the drive. But
autorun.infs have another feature.

Autorun.inf files can have a line that points to an icon file (.ico) like
below:

[autorun]
open=autorun.exe
icon=autorun.ico

The purpose being so that when you place a disk in the CD or DVD drive, the
drive icon changes to whatever the disk programmer wanted. Say it was a
Word Perfect install disk, then those folks would want one of their icons to
display.

You can create an autorun.inf file like:

[autorun]
icon=custom.ico

place it in any hard drive and customize that drive's icon. The custom.ico
also has to be in the same location, i.e. in the root of the E: drive in
order for the custom icon to display. If the custom.ico file is not in the
root of the E: drive along with the autorun.inf file a generic icon appears
because Windows gets confused.

* You can use an autorun.inf to customize a hard drive icon.

* An autorun.inf that gets placed on a hard drive by mistake causes a
generic drive icon to appear.

The last item seems to be a common problem. I do not know why it happens
and nobody seems to worry about why, they just say to delete it.

You can also customize a drive's icon with a registry entry.

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[churin]

Sorry for my late reply. Thank you very much for your detailed
explanation. This is going to be a new entry to my PC data base collection.
Thank again.