Hi everyone, I hope someone can help me as this is driving me mad!
I foolishly used a programme to change the colour of the "My pictures"
icon, I didn't like it so change it back however it is now a plain
folder icon without the usual folder with the little picture sticking
out.
Can someone tell me how I can change the icon to one of my choice, I
have read a lot about creating a desktop.ini file which I tried and
that failed, maybe I did it wrong???
Please help, in idiot terms would be good, hehe!
Thank you soooo much
Helen


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helbells

The folder should contain a desktop.ini file with the following contents:

[DeleteOnCopy]
Owner=Helen
Personalized=39
PersonalizedName=My Pictures
[.ShellClassInfo]
InfoTip=@Shell32.dll,-12688
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\System32\mydocs.dll
IconIndex=-101

It's an ordinary text file with a .ini extension. Make sure the explorer option to 'hide extensions for known file types' is turned off or you may end up with desktop.ini.txt.

The folder also needs it's read-only bit set. Open a command prompt window & navigate to the folder that contains the My Pictures folder, then type the following:

attrib +r "my pictures"

Good Luck,
Keith

"helbells" <helbells.1xzrix@pcbanter.net> wrote in message news:helbells.1xzrix@pcbanter.net...
>
> Hi everyone, I hope someone can help me as this is driving me mad!
> I foolishly used a programme to change the colour of the "My pictures"
> icon, I didn't like it so change it back however it is now a plain
> folder icon without the usual folder with the little picture sticking
> out.
> Can someone tell me how I can change the icon to one of my choice, I
> have read a lot about creating a desktop.ini file which I tried and
> that failed, maybe I did it wrong???
> Please help, in idiot terms would be good, hehe!
> Thank you soooo much
> Helen
>
>
> --
> helbells

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 21:02:59 +0000, helbells
<helbells.1xzrix@pcbanter.net> wrote:

>
>Hi everyone, I hope someone can help me as this is driving me mad!
>I foolishly used a programme to change the colour of the "My pictures"
>icon, I didn't like it so change it back however it is now a plain
>folder icon without the usual folder with the little picture sticking
>out.
>Can someone tell me how I can change the icon to one of my choice, I
>have read a lot about creating a desktop.ini file which I tried and
>that failed, maybe I did it wrong???
>Please help, in idiot terms would be good, hehe!
>Thank you soooo much
>Helen

Right click onm folder and select "Properties"

Click on "Customise" tab

Click on "Change Icon"

You can then click on "Browse" and choose a file that contains icons.
These are some of them:-

C:\WINDOWS\system32\pifmgr.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\moricons.dll

Then click on an icon that you like and click OK

If you don't like any of those you can search the internet - stacks of
icons out there.
--
Stubbo of Oz

Thank you so much Keith, I created the ini with your code thing and it's
completely worked, yay! It's been annoying me all day! You're a star!

Stubbo, thank you for your suggestion....what you said works on normal
folders but it doesn't work on my pictures or my music unfortunately.
Appreciate your help though

Love Helen


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helbells

Your welcome,

Keith

"helbells" <helbells.1xzzuy@pcbanter.net> wrote in message news:helbells.1xzzuy@pcbanter.net...
>
> Thank you so much Keith, I created the ini with your code thing and it's
> completely worked, yay! It's been annoying me all day! You're a star!
>
> Stubbo, thank you for your suggestion....what you said works on normal
> folders but it doesn't work on my pictures or my music unfortunately.
> Appreciate your help though
>
> Love Helen
>
>
> --
> helbells

Alternately:

1. Click Start, click Run, and then type:

rundll32 mydocs.dll,PerUserInit

2. Click OK.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com


"helbells" <helbells.1xzrix@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
news:helbells.1xzrix@pcbanter.net...
>
> Hi everyone, I hope someone can help me as this is driving me mad!
> I foolishly used a programme to change the colour of the "My pictures"
> icon, I didn't like it so change it back however it is now a plain
> folder icon without the usual folder with the little picture sticking
> out.
> Can someone tell me how I can change the icon to one of my choice, I
> have read a lot about creating a desktop.ini file which I tried and
> that failed, maybe I did it wrong???
> Please help, in idiot terms would be good, hehe!
> Thank you soooo much
> Helen
>
>
> --
> helbells