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Hi,

I was trying to move the location of the shell folders (Documents, Pictures, Music and Videos) to a different drive, but I somehow borked it up. I fixed that by going to the following registry key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

and changing the paths to the respective folders.

I now can access them again, but their original icons (green folder with unique identifying overlay) aren't there anymore. See below screenshot...

homefolder.png

How do I get back the original icons? If this were in XP, I could rebuild the icon cache. Is this still possible in Vista? How else can I get back the original icons?

Thanks!

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Nevermind, found the solution to my problem. Took a good 1hr of searching though.

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Symptom

When you open Windows Explorer, the shell folders such as Documents and Pictures may be displayed with a standard folder icon rather than the special folder icons.

Resolution

This behavior can occur when the desktop.ini file in the shell folder is missing or incorrect, or it has no attributes set. The default contents of the desktop.ini file for various shell folders in Windows Vista are given below. In each shell folder that's missing the special icon, create a file named desktop.ini and paste the content corresponding to the shell folder.

Then right-click the file desktop.ini and choose Properties. Place a checkmark near Hidden attribute, and click OK. Logoff and login again for the changes to take effect.

Desktop.ini contents for various shell folders in Windows Vista

Documents

[.ShellClassInfo]

LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21770

IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-112

IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll

IconIndex=-235

Pictures

[.ShellClassInfo]

LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21779

InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12688

IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-113

IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll

IconIndex=-236

[LocalizedFileNames]

Sample Pictures.lnk=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21805

Music

[.ShellClassInfo]

LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21790

InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12689

IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-108

IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll

IconIndex=-237

[LocalizedFileNames]

Sample Music.lnk=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21806

Videos

[.ShellClassInfo]

LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21791

InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12690

IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-189

IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll

IconIndex=-238

[LocalizedFileNames]

Sample Videos.lnk=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21807

Searches

[.ShellClassInfo]

LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-9031

IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-18

[LocalizedFileNames]

Indexed [email protected],-32811

[email protected],-32814

Shared By [email protected],-32802

Recent [email protected],-32803

Recent [email protected],-32804

Recent Pictures and [email protected],-32806

Recent [email protected],-32807

Recently [email protected],-32813

Downloads

[.ShellClassInfo]

LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21798

IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-184

Favorites

[.ShellClassInfo]

LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21796

IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-115

IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll

IconIndex=-173

Contacts

[.ShellClassInfo]

LocalizedResourceName=@%CommonProgramFiles%\system\wab32res.dll,-10100

InfoTip=@%CommonProgramFiles%\system\wab32res.dll,-10200

IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-181

I definitely need to be more careful when I'm fooling around with Vista given how new it is and not everyone knows how to fix things...

cheers!

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  • 2 weeks later...

Hi Guys,

thanks for the great info.

I have a problem regarding my standard folder icon, no matter where I am in windows.

If I try to use list view or detail view I get an icon like you'd get if you didn't have a program associated with a file (see attached jpg).

This happened because I had attempted hacking imageres.dll. My computer is working fine all the way around with the exception of this folder icon issue. I did revert back to the original imageres.dll and I have not disabled UAC.

If I'm posting in the wrong place, please move the post - and if I sound like an idiot - oops :)

Can anyone help?

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