Explorer icons superimposed to files and folders ones (CDs only)

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Dear All:
First details: My system is a Laptop with XP Home edition.

A couple of times it happened that for some strange reason, my files and
folders on CDs show a BIG Internet Explorer icon superimposed over the
standard ones.

On either "Details", "List", "Icons" and "Tiles" view, I cannot see the
normal icon. On "Thumbnails" view, I can see the normal icon, with the IE one
on the bottom left corner of it (superimposed of course...).

I have not installed any new software recently, so a system restore did not
solve the issue. This smells like something you can easily solve by tweaking
the registry, but I rather follow an expert advice on this...

Thanks in advance for your help.
 
[Santiago] wrote-:
Dear All:
First details: My system is a Laptop with XP Home edition.

A couple of times it happened that for some strange reason, my files and
folders on CDs show a BIG Internet Explorer icon superimposed over the
standard ones.

On either "Details", "List", "Icons" and "Tiles" view, I cannot see the
normal icon. On "Thumbnails" view, I can see the normal icon, with the IE one
on the bottom left corner of it (superimposed of course...).

I have not installed any new software recently, so a system restore did not
solve the issue. This smells like something you can easily solve by tweaking
the registry, but I rather follow an expert advice on this...

Thanks in advance for your help.
Click to expand...

Try the Repair Icons option in TweakUI:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx


Good Luck, Ayush.
 
BULLSEYE!

Thank you mate!

Ayush" <"ayushmaan.j[aatt]gmail.com said:
[Santiago] wrote-:
Dear All:
First details: My system is a Laptop with XP Home edition.

A couple of times it happened that for some strange reason, my files and
folders on CDs show a BIG Internet Explorer icon superimposed over the
standard ones.

On either "Details", "List", "Icons" and "Tiles" view, I cannot see the
normal icon. On "Thumbnails" view, I can see the normal icon, with the IE one
on the bottom left corner of it (superimposed of course...).

I have not installed any new software recently, so a system restore did not
solve the issue. This smells like something you can easily solve by tweaking
the registry, but I rather follow an expert advice on this...

Thanks in advance for your help.
Click to expand...

Try the Repair Icons option in TweakUI:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx


Good Luck, Ayush.
Click to expand...
 
Oops.

The TweakUI solved the issue, but after rebooting, the problem reappears. It
seems that something "resets" the icons to the wrong status..

Any clues?
 
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