Re: Hard drive icons in Explorer opens in a new window!

The drive icon can come from the Autorun.inf file, or from the DriveIcons
registry key.

After deleting the Autorun.inf file, see if rebooting the system fixes the
icons.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog


"Ren" <Ren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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GOOD GOSH!

Jolly good chap, it actually work XD! So now my shortcuts and etc have
returned to normal, i don't know how you did it but groovy (making new
shortcuts work, and harddrives open in the same window!)

One last question though!

My maxtor hard drive no longer has its normal Icon for it! Is there a way
to
get it back to how it was before?

"Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP" wrote:

Perfect!

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog


"Bill Blanton" <bblanton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Drive icons and drive "open" actions can be controlled by autorun.inf
files
in the root of drives.

Enable Explorer to show hidden files. Do you see any autorun.inf
files in the root of the drives? If so close all instances of explorer.
Open a cmd prompt (Start > Run... >(enter) CMD). At the cmd
prompt type

attrib -r -h -s C:\autorun.inf
ren C:\autorun.inf *.txt

repeat for all drive letters.

Open the resulting autorun.txt files and the *numbers [5]*.vbs files in
notepad to try to determine what malware you may have.





"Ren" <Ren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sorry, that doesnt work either, also tried the reg fix of it.

The problem is, that icons within My Computer, open up in a new
window,
anything else opens int he same window.

I.E. Click on C: (Opens new window) click on Program Files (Opens
within
same window)

"Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP" wrote:

Hi Ren,

Try the fix here.

FIX: Open each folder in the same window:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/samewindow.htm

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Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog


"Ren" <Ren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When I double click on the C: or D: or any drive(including
externals)
inside
'My Computer', the drive i double clicked or opened starts in a new
window.
But the folder navigations inside the drives open in the same
window.
If I
click 'back' and come to My Computer again and double click on any
drive,
one
more My Computer window is left back and another window opens.

Creating shortcuts, into the desktop will also not properly work! A
shortcut
appears but will not work. In clicking a shortcut a 'Windows Script
Host'
error occurs "C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Desktop\*numbers
[5]*.vbs".


Any guidance, help etc will be greatly appreciated!

P.S. If i edit it and add the same field in "Start in" the shortcut
will
work, deleting it afterwards the shortcut will still continue to
work
(In
the
end its still as if i didn't change anything but the shortcut
works)

I use SP3 Windows XP pro

External harddrives with custom icons that appear in My computer,
no
longer
appears.

I've googled abit and i have tried this

"1. Open Start >> Run and type regsvr32 /i shell32.dll
2. press ok
3. You will see a message DllRegisterServer and DllInstall in
shell32.dll
succeeded "

I have also tried roll backs (through system restore)












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