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Windows XP folder themes....

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GnomeCop

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OK, you know how Windows XP will have different types of folders? Music folders, picture folders, etc...When you have music in a folder, the background will change to a picture of a musical note and the tasks on the lefthand side will change to offer music tasks.

My question is that my 2nd hard drive ( D: ) is now labeled as a MUSIC folder... The root directory.

normally I would just right click and select properties and then the customize tab to change or get rid of it, but since it is a root directory, that option does not appear.

Is there any way to get rid of this? Anyone know?
 
are you saying that you changed the icon of the second hd (labeled MUSIC with the drive letter D: ) or that you changed a folder inside the second drive, or that by merely renaming the second hd to music, it got the music icon and behaves like the music folder inside the documents folder?
 
actually my 2nd hard drive has the Label : BACKUP

when I double click on it to display its contents, the root directory has the attributes of a music folder with the musical not in the background.

normall I would just right click on any blak space of the folder and select properties->customize to change it back to normal, but since it is the root directory, that option is not there. Selecting Properties takes me to the properties page of the HD, that shows used space/free space, etc.

 
this is a really weird problem because I don't even see a way to make the root directory a custom folder to begin with
 
this is a really weird problem because I don't even see a way to make the root directory a custom folder to begin with
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I suspect that is why this thread hasn't seen much activity. I saw it earlier and had a go at changing the drive icon for drive D: on my Windows XP test machine through the GUI controls. No dice. I didn't bother trying to rummage through the registry to change it that way because, obviously, you didn't do that to your machine. It just "happened", right?

I was thinking, though, about those programs that do change drive icons for their own purposes. I'm wondering if you may have installed a player or some CD or DVD authoring software that may have designated the entire drive as a "virtual CD / DVD" or some such. With the programs that I have seen that can do such things there have always been internal settings in the programs themselves that cause the change in the icon. I've never seen such a program do this by default. If you think back over the installation history of this computer do you remember installing and configuring some software that may have done this? I'm thinking particularly of things like those utilities that help users run copy protected games without having to actually insert the "key" CDs, CD authoring software with virtual CD drives for creating CD images on a hard drive partition, and other such stuff. Since I can't imagine that anyone would have their software do this by default (Well, I can imagine it, but they'd have to be REALLY dumb, or they'd have to have a truly inflated sense of their own importance.) this change in the drive icon may not date back to the time of installation of the software. Instead, it may date back to a later time when you explored or used the software and changed a critical setting.

Of course, if we dig a little deeper we may find out that this is some setting intrinsic to the operating system itself, but I certainly haven't stumbled across it yet. And I do a lot of stumbling! 😀

- prosaic
 
heheh yeah it just happened, and I only have nero installed, not even Imagedrive. really weird. not a huge problem, just looks weird.

oh well if anyone stumbles upon the setting please post it.
 
Here's how to change your hard drive icon.

Open notepad and type:

"[autorun]
icon=(name of the .ico file or .dll in which the icon is contained), number"


"Number" indicates which icon file you want to use. If you are using a .ico file, or if you want to use the first icon in a dll, do not type anything. But, if you want to use the fourth icon in the .dll replace "number" with "4"


Save this notepad file as "autorun.inf" in the root directory of the drive you wish to modify (eg. C:\), not within any subdirectories or folders within the drive.


Refresh the folder or reboot your computer to see your changed icon. This works in all versions of Windows.
 
hey thats a handy tip.


the icon I'm talking about though is more of the folder background that Xp uses when you double-click your HD and display its root directory.
 
Have you tried unchecking "use common tasks in folders"? (system properties/advanced/performance options)

 
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