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JohnDemolition

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Have you tried right clicking on the current icon, then clicking on Properties, then the Customize tab, and then Change Icon? Then you can choose from a selection of MS icons.

 

If you had a custom icon then that probably won't work although you can navigate to a different folder with more icons if you have one from there.

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Have you tried right clicking on the current icon, then clicking on Properties, then the Customize tab, and then Change Icon? Then you can choose from a selection of MS icons.

 

If you had a custom icon then that probably won't work although you can navigate to a different folder with more icons if you have one from there.

that's not possible. it's possible for a regular folder, but not My Music/Documents/Pictures/Videos and a couple of others.

 

Tarun: just tried that(MyDocs was registered anyways) and it didn't work. hmm actually the icon for my music did return. but the one on the start menu didn't. maybe a restart would fix it.

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I've been changing my icon since I've had XP.

 

Here's how:

  1. Open the My Music folder.
  2. Right click a blank area in the folder and select Customize.
  3. To use the default icon browse to and select it in:
    %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll

 

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Windows Explorer > Tools Folder Options > View and disable Hide protected operating system files. Go to My Music and open Desktop.ini.

 

The contents should read as follows (<USERNAME> is your username):

 

[DeleteOnCopy]

Owner=<USERNAME>

Personalized=13

PersonalizedName=My Music

[.ShellClassInfo]

InfoTip=@Shell32.dll,-12689

IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll

IconIndex=-237

 

You can edit the last two lines to customize the icon.

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...you mean you can edit the damn thing? SWEET!!!

 

edit:btw, is it possible to point it to an icon instead of a .dll file?

 

edit2: just tried that and it WORKS. guess i have to say goodbye to editing the shell32.dll file. but the one thing that it doesn't let me do is edit the regular folder File :angry:.

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edit:btw, is it possible to point it to an icon instead of a .dll file?
To point to an icon, the second last line becomes the path and IconIndex=0. For example:

 

IconFile=%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Documents\My Icons\Custom Folder.ico

IconIndex=0

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I think you could edit the registry entry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\DefaultIcon to specify a path to a custom icon.

 

I haven't tried it myself but it's probably safer than hacking the shell32.dll file.

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