whacky XP issue

whacky XP issue

by Jayce873 Nov 18, 2004 4:10AM PST

I installed WinXP onto a new computer with 2 partitions. Install went fine. As a last task, I changed the given name of the C: drive (which was just a series of alpha characters and numbers) to a logical name for the user to understand. Now it no longer has the drive icon... it looks like any unknown file type. you try to open it and it gives an error. If you right click and explore, it opens the C partition no problem. But if you double click it, it doesn't work.

I tried fixing the installation... there are no issues. i tried scanning and repairing the disk. again, no issues. Not sure what else to try at this point, so some suggestions would be grand.

thanks all.

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Re: whacky XP issue and how I can change that icon.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Nov 18, 2004 4:45AM PST

You can read more about it at http://www.phdcc.com/shellrun/autorun.htm but if there is an AUTORUN.INF in the C:\ directory, the drive icon can be usurped to whatever you want.

Bob

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Re: whacky XP issue and how I can change that icon.

by Jayce873 Nov 21, 2004 5:44AM PST

Bob, thanks for your reply. I think I might be a little confused. What I got from your post was that i could fix the issue, both of the icon displaying and the actual opening on double click if i opened the "autorun.inf" in a text editor and confirmed there were 2 lines:

open=ShellRun.exe
icon=snazzie.ico

and obviously the .ico file would be the one for the harddrive. OK. The problem is, I cannot find an autorun.inf just for my c: drive. I see one for my Office XP install, but not for straight out Windows XP. Am I misunderstanding your recommendation or am I missing something else altogether?

thanks again for your help.

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In short, C: should not have autorun.inf in the root.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Nov 21, 2004 5:46AM PST

Unless that's what you wanted.

I'd delete that file.

Bob

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Re: In short, C: should not have autorun.inf in the root.

by Jayce873 Nov 23, 2004 12:52AM PST

well thats good because i couldn't find it.
so now, i have no idea how to fix the whole icon problem and it not working when i double click it but working when i right click and explore.

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Just whacky explorer. Articles supplied.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Nov 23, 2004 1:05AM PST

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=307028 writes:
"The Folders Bar in Windows Explorer Does Not Contain Any Icons" and ...
"Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article."

Point? There are bugs in Explorer. All we can do for some is to reiterate that the OS and applications like Explorer are not perfect.

More?

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=810087 notes missing information in Explorer over a VPN link. It's only fixed in the latest Service Pack (SP2) and guess what? Many won't or can't install SP2.

There's more, but for now I'd let this sit and not try to fix it.

Bob

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