My Music Folder Icon Missing

[Vaughan Butler]

Anyone come across this?

The references in desktop.ini point to a location in shell32.dll, but no
special icon there.

Any ideas?

TIA

Vaughan

 

[Gary Smith]

The references in desktop.ini point to a location in shell32.dll, but no
special icon there.

Do you mean that there's an IconFile entry but no IconIndex entry?

 

[Vaughan Butler]

Hi Gary
Thanks for reply.
Here is text in desktop.ini

[DeleteOnCopy]
Owner=vbutler
Personalized=13
PersonalizedName=My Music
[.ShellClassInfo]
[email protected],-12689
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-237

When you look through shell32.dll, there appears to be nothing at the
index entry in the .ini file. In fact the special folder icon with a
musical note on it just isn't in the .dll file.

I wondered if the shell32.dll had been updated with the various service
packs (I have SP4), so expanded the version off the original CD, but
that doesn't contain the icon either.

Have trawled around the web a bit, but can't find any info.

Vaughan

 

[Gary Smith]

The parameters you have work on Windows XP, but not on Win2K. The XP
version of shell32.dll contains a lot more icons, including the folder
with musical note. If you really, really want that icon, you could get a
copy of the WinXP version of shell32.dll and put it on your system UNDER A
DIFFERENT NAME. Don't overlay the Win2K version. You could then edit
desktop.ini to point to shell32xp.dll or whatever you called it. I
personally think the XP icons look lame, but that's a matter of taste.

Hi Gary
Thanks for reply.
Here is text in desktop.ini

[DeleteOnCopy]
Owner=vbutler
Personalized=13
PersonalizedName=My Music
[.ShellClassInfo]
[email protected],-12689
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-237

When you look through shell32.dll, there appears to be nothing at the
index entry in the .ini file. In fact the special folder icon with a
musical note on it just isn't in the .dll file.