Problems using Autorun.inf on hard disks

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Mueller Michael

Hi.

I using the Autorun.inf to give each of my Drives an own Icon.
Since two days now i can't get any Icon for my primary partitions.
Extended Partitions are working well, but for the primary no Icon is
displayed. I tried altering the icon by registry ot third-party-tools,
but nothing works, only the default icon is shown.
I haven't installed any software and haven't got any error-messages -
it happend suddenly over night :(
KnowledgeBase doesn't help on this toppic.

Does anyone have a clue?
Maybe there are some "hidden secrets" within the registry?

Thanks
Michi

PS: I already tried to low-level-format on of my disks, but this
didn't help.
 
Hi Michi,

WindowsXP will remember the settings of up to 400 folders, after that it
starts forgetting some. See this from MVP Kelly for a way to increase this
number:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Line 2, increase the folder view size limit to 8000

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Mueller said:
Hi Rick.


Didn't work :(
Used some of his tweaks relating autorun and icons, too. But nothing
worked.

Michi
Click to expand...

Change "his tweaks" to "her tweaks"
Kelly is female
:-))
 
She won't mind, trust me. It happens all the time. Have you rebooted the
system yet?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Hi Rick.
Have you rebooted the system yet?
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Guess what ;)
Rebooted several times, especially after applying the "tweaks", but this
didn't help.

For now what I can say:
Only primary partitions show this "error".
Found also today that one of my disks seems to have problems resuming from
spin-down.
Maybe this caused the fault. This drive had only one primary partition on
it.

Any further suggestions?
Only thing left in my opinion would be a clean reinstall, but this will cost
lots of time :((

Michi
 
For now what I can say:
Only primary partitions show this "error".
Found also today that one of my disks seems to have problems resuming
from spin-down. Maybe this caused the fault. This drive had only one
primary partition on it.
Click to expand...

Another thing I found minutes ago:
It effects all current users, but if a new user is generated all is
back to normal ... weired!

Michi
 
For now what I can say:
Another thing I found minutes ago:
It effects all current users, but if a new user is generated all is
back to normal ... weired!
Click to expand...

Err, the new user has the icons, the old ones still have the standard
icon.
 
Another thing I found minutes ago:
Err, the new user has the icons, the old ones still have the standard
icon.
Click to expand...

Damn, only in first entering the account. After reboot same effect as
with the old ones :-/

Michi
 
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