Vista - Drive Icon Change

Darius,

This is a persistant little bug. LOL

Does leaving the drive letter changed allow the icon to stay?


Shawn

Shawn,

Yes, an annoying one. On the other hand I am learning a lot during getting rid of it.

To answer your question: when the drive letter was changed to 'M' (and don't ask why I chose 'M'...), the letter changed but the icon remained generic.
Then I rebooted and changed letter again to 'E'. As I said, an 'E' icon came up correctly for a few seconds, then changed again to generic.

Counting on your help...

Darius

Darius,

We pretty much tried all the simpler ideas that I know of. You would expect something like this as being more likely from an external drive. LOL

The only other thing I can think of is to delete the partition and Extend it back to another partition, then recreate the partition. If this does not reset it, I do not know what else will other than a full wipeout of all partitions and starting over with a reinstall. It will be some work, but it should work. Just be sure to backup the drive first.

If you need these:

Disk Management - Delete and Extend

Disk Management - Shrink Partition

Shawn

Shawn,

I will pass on this one. This would require restoring backed up data and reinstalling the programs; too much time--unfortunately my duties prevent me from dedicating all my free time to fixng bugs in Vista...
For the sake of completeness: I tried to resize and move partition using a third party tool (Partition Manager), i.e., do it "outside" Vista. No change.

I am going to treat it as I would treat a dent on a new car: ugly, but it's not the biggest problem and you have to live with it.

Thank you for all your help.

On different note, I have a few questions about the Vista user interface, which behaves differently than XP interface I am familiar with, and I don't want to post it here. Selfishly I am planning on using your knowledge again. Where is the best place to post such a question on this forum?

Best,

Darius

Darius,

I do not blame you. It is a lot of work for such a minor thing. You can do like I do, add it to a list for reasons to do a reinstall. When there are enough minor issues listed, you can reconsider a reinstall then. Of course, with all the things I try on my computer, it does not take to long to break it and have to do a reinstall. LOL

You can post the question in the General Discussion forum. You should get some good replies from there.

Shawn

You can also do it this way: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
Make a key called DriveIcons, and, under that key, make a key for every drive you want to assign an icon to, say, C Under C make a new key DefaultIcon, and under it, a REG_SZ value. Give this the path to the icon. You can also make a key called DefaultLabel under the drive key, which can be useful for optical drives (call one 'Source' and one 'Target', say, or one 'Popeye' and the other 'Bluto')

Hi AvatarOfTheShip,

Thank you for the great tip. It has been added as METHOD TWO in this tutorial, and here:

Drive Name Change

Shawn

Thanks Brink. Glad it was of use.

Thank you. It worked great. As a side note, I used a 128x128 .ico size, not 256x256 and it worked.

I'm a try this one too, this forum is more work than i thought, i have tons of other things to fix/setup. You all are helping unlock vista for me, thank you yet again.

I have gotten a few laughs as i dig through the tutorials. Most would take me years to resolve.

vista64dotcomrox

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