Problems using Autorun.inf on hard disks

[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.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

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 Michael]

Hi Rick.

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

Line 2, increase the folder view size limit to 8000

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

Michi

 

[Trevor L.]

Hi Rick.


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

Michi

Change "his tweaks" to "her tweaks"
Kelly is female
)

 

[Mueller Michael]

Change "his tweaks" to "her tweaks"

Kelly is female
)

Ups, so sorry :-/

Michi

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

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

 

[Mueller Michael]

Hi Rick.

Have you rebooted the system yet?

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

 

[Mueller Michael]

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.

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

 

[Mueller Michael]

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!

Err, the new user has the icons, the old ones still have the standard
icon.

 

[Mueller Michael]

Another thing I found minutes ago:

Err, the new user has the icons, the old ones still have the standard
icon.

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

Michi