Tom Porterfield

romanom wrote:
> I accidently deleted my downloads folder, the shell one with the pretty icon,
> while I simply created a new folder I can't get the original icon back.
>
> BEFORE, you post about the desktop.ini file, I already tried that and it
> isn't working. I even tried chaning themes along with that as one site
> suggested, no dice.
>
> I can live this of course since it works fine, but any idea on how to get
> the 'special' icon back. Could I be missing something in the desktop.ini
> trick?
>
> Thanks!

In addition to having the correct desktop.ini file in the folder, you
need to give the folder the read-only attribute. This has to be done
from the command prompt:

attrib +r downloads
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Tom Porterfield