desktop.ini file for My documents folder

Question

I have inadvertently messed up the desktop.ini file for the My documents folder in my user account. As a result I've lost the special folder icon.   I would be grateful if someone could post the contents of their desktop.ini file in that folder so that I can restore the folder icon and name. It will only be a few lines long.   Thanks.

JRosenfeld · Answer

Thanks, but that did not restore the special icon (of course I changed the owner name); is yours an ordinary folder icon? I think there ought to be something along the lines of this, copied from the My pictures folder, to specify the folder icon

[.ShellClassInfo]
InfoTip=@Shell32.dll,-12688 (or similar)
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\mydocs.dll (or maybe shel32.dll)
IconIndex=-xxx where xxx is a number.

Denny Denham · Answer

JRosenfeld, Here's mine: [DeleteOnCopy]Owner=DennyPersonalized=5PersonalizedName=My Documents I have no idea what Personalized might refer to.

Denny Denham · Answer

JRosenfeld, I have the special icon and all the other folders with special icons have an indicated location of the icon (in shell32.dll). My Documents, however, does not.

JRosenfeld · Answer

Oh well, I'll survive :-)

chuket · Answer

JRosenfeld   You can try this program free for 30 days. It allows you to change any icon (including shell32.dll) to one of your choosing:   http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Icons-Related/Bee-Icons.shtml

iKlaatu · Answer

Try -0 for the IconIndex. Seems to have made mine change here, looks like the one on the Desktop now (I told Windows to put one there long ago) whereas before seeing this message thread about it I, too, only had a regular folder. This turned out to be the only way I could make the change after some investigating conventional ways.

I looked in the System Registry file (by running regedit) to see what possible icon numbers (references, or whatever they are) in mydocs.dll might be used and only found 900 and 0. I tried -1 before that, thinking it might only have a 1 and 2 since that was the number of icons shown when checking on a change elsewhere.

So... thanks for the problem thus showing me something to try myself.

Oh yeah, and maybe you can ignore that InfoTip. At least, I remarked mine out of the desktop.ini file and things seem normal still.

Message Edited by iKlaatu on 05-14-2005 11:01 PM

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desktop.ini file for My documents folder

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