Mapped Music Drive == "WRONG ICON!"

[MichaelDBang]

Hello All,

I've recently moved my music folder to a mapped drive, and this is the result in Windows Explorer:

EWWWWWWWWWWWWW! How do I fix this?

Thank you,
Michael

 

[fadedrs]

that is the icon for a mapped drive it is the correct icon,

but you should be able to change it by, right clicking on it and selecting properties, and than change icon.

 

[MichaelDBang]

Alright... question is... where's the file that has the original icon?

 

[fadedrs]

try this

%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll

 

[MichaelDBang]

Hm. I'm using the "Customize" tab, and then selecting "Choose File" under the "Folder pictures" grouping... When I provide the path to that DLL (and OK the dialog), nothing happens, and the icon doesn't change. Am I using the right tab?

 

[fadedrs]

under shortcut tab and than "change icon"

 

[MichaelDBang]

This is what I see when I right-click ==> Properties:

 

[Brink]

Hello Michael,

You should be able to use OPTION TWO in the tutorial below to change the Music user folder icon to one you want instead.

User Folders - Change Default Icon - Windows 7 Forums

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[MichaelDBang]

Well OK... now it looks like I have bigger problems. What's missing from this picture? :P

 

[Brink]

Michael,

Did this happen by just changing the icon for it?

Check using the tutorial below to see if it can help you restore this missing user folder.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/148461-personal-user-folder-restore-missing-folder.html

 

[MichaelDBang]

Hm. Ok. It appears the reason why it's not showing up under C:\users is because that I moved it when I changed its location to the mapped drive. So it shows up under my personal Desktop folder but with the ugly mapped drive icon. WTF!

I should also note that the Music icon in the Links folder shows the pretty icon. Is there a way to move that to under my personal Desktop folder instead?

 

[Brink]

Have you tried the method posted above here to see if you could change the icon for that folder yet?

 

[MichaelDBang]

Hi Brink,

I just posted a screenshot showing that I don't even have a music folder to try option 2 on. Unless I'm missing something completely obvious?

 

[Brink]

Sorry Michael,

I thought that you had already done this to restore it.

http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/239019-mapped-music-drive-wrong-icon.html#post1097868

 

[MichaelDBang]

If I restore it, then it will ask me to move all my music from my mapped drive, correct? Then it's going to pull 400GB of data over... not exactly what I want. If I click no, it says that I will have two Music folders. Not what I want. So what do I do? :P

 

[Brink]

Test the Shell command (OPTION ONE) to see if that may open it, and also double check to make sure that the network location is correct (METHOD THREE - manual) in the registry for that.

Is the network drive connected?

I'm not sure what else to try either though.

 

[MichaelDBang]

shell:My Music brings it up. The music folder (and mapped drive) is "connected" it's just not allowing me to change the icon. I can't believe this is so difficult. I would think that lots of people map their music folder to a drive.

 

[Brink]

I'm happy to hear the folder is back at least.

 

[MichaelDBang]

So are you saying I'm stuck with the ugly network drive icon?

 

[Brink]

Since this method didn't let you change the icon, then I'm not sure how to.