Re: Vanishing icons on Desktop and in Recycle Bin

My guess is that if I could figure out what was in the info2 file and
recreate it exactly, I'd be in business.

Ah crap, I forgot that part. I was so excited about my idea that I couldn't
see the forest for the trees. ;-(

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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mason204 <mason204.2l38ru@xxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Thanks again....

The bad news....it didn't work.

The good news...I was able to create a text file with no .txt extension
and it did let me save it into both directories suggested below. I then
added the read-only, system and hidden attributes, which the computer
also did just fine.

My guess is that if I could figure out what was in the info2 file and
recreate it exactly, I'd be in business.

It was a good try, though.

Cheryl.

Wesley Vogel Wrote:
Cheryl,

regsvr32 /i shell32 checks and sets between 4,000 and 6,000 registry
entries.

Type into Start | Run and click OK..

regsvr32 /i shell32

You should get a message saying it succeeded. Then reboot.

I have absolutely no idea if this will help. But it can't hurt. I
thought
of this yesterday.

Try creating a .txt file in C:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-~1 and
C:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-~2
with Notepad.
Change the name to INFO2 with no extension.

OPEN A COMMAND PROMPT...
TYPE CD C:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-~1 AND THEN PRESS ENTER.
TYPE ATTRIB +R +S +H INFO2 AND THEN PRESS ENTER.

TYPE CD C:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-~2 AND THEN PRESS ENTER.
TYPE ATTRIB +R +S +H INFO2 AND THEN PRESS ENTER.

ATTRIB +R +S +H INFO2 should add the Read-only, System and Hidden
attributes
to INFO2.

Like I said, I have no idea if that will help anything or not. But it
can't
hoit. ;-)

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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mason204 mason204.2l12zu@xxxxxxxxxxxx hunted and pecked:-
Thanks for your help, Wes.

I think this one's a lost cause...

I did the following:

OPEN A COMMAND PROMPT...
TYPE C:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-~1 AND THEN PRESS ENTER.
TYPE ATTRIB -R -S -H INFO2 AND THEN PRESS ENTER.
TYPE DEL INFO2 AND THEN PRESS ENTER.

TYPE C:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-~2 AND THEN PRESS ENTER.
TYPE ATTRIB -R -S -H INFO2 AND THEN PRESS ENTER.
TYPE DEL INFO2 AND THEN PRESS ENTER.

REBOOT.

..but I couldn't get past ATTRIB -r -s -h info2. Kept getting the
message "file not found". The only file in the directory was
desktop.ini. I've rebooted several times but, contrary to what
everyone says, my computer will not recreate the info2 file at
startup.
I do suspect that if the file were there, my problems would be
solved.

I checked Kelly's korner again but the solution was to do what you
noted above. If the computer won't recreate the info2 file, there's
nothing more I can do.

Thanks again for your help.

Cheryl.




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