HDD Icon...Gone!

Tesla · 24 May 2006 at 17:47

I was playing around with some sort of Vista theme pack. Didn't like it so uninstalled it.

Everything reverted correctly except for the icon for my C: drive in "My Computer". My other partitions are fine.

How can I get the C: icon back as a disk as apposed to the generic unknown icon.

I have tried rebuilding icons in Tweak UI without any success.

Thanks,

Chris

Tesla · 26 May 2006 at 17:00

Bump, it's an annoying niggle!

Orifice · 26 May 2006 at 17:23

I broke my drive icons once, and fixed it by changing a reg key, it was a solution chucked up by google, so might not work for your issue.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell

Default value should be none

Tesla · 27 May 2006 at 12:35

Checked that entry and it's at none.

PC could do with a clean up anyway so think I will start a fresh with tidying up my personal stuff and also a nice clean install.

knowlesy · 27 May 2006 at 12:38

download "icon tweaker" or "Icon packager"

icon tweaker is free

but icon packager slighly better but you have to pay or get the trial

Borden · 27 May 2006 at 14:33

Downlaod the TweakUI Powertoy from Microsoft and use the 'rebuild icons' function, it worked for me when that happened

basmic · 27 May 2006 at 14:55

Don't forget to restart Windows when you rebuild your icons.

Tesla · 27 May 2006 at 17:09

Tried both of the above without any success.

The cause of the problem was a Vista theme pack I had tried, not liked and then uninstalled.

I decided to clean up my hdd and do a fresh install so the problem has been cured now.

Cheers guys.