does anyone know any way to get it back? here's a screenshot to see what i mean.



i haven't tried hacking the shell32.dll file yet(need a good icon package to find) so i dunno what could be the cause.

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.

Any help here?

http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum...annoyances.html

Start > Run
regsvr32 C:\Windows\System32\MyDocs.dll

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.

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

I cannot do that, I get no customize option!

I don't know if that has to do with the location of the folder or not as I have mine on a completely different disk "D:" which I used Tweak UI to change the default location.

not possible on my comp either. anyways, it's showing up in the taskbar and in explorer so issue solved. thanks again

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.

...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 .

Yes.

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

sooo? any way to edit the regular folder icon without hacking the shell32.dll file or using some other program(say IconPackager)?

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean you want to change the default to something other than the standard yellow folder?

exactly. the yellow icon doesn't seem that great.

You can say that again, which is why I don't use it!

You can get some nice replacement icons at:
Iconaholic - http://www.iconaholic.com/
The Yellow Icon - http://www.yellowicon.com/
deviantART - http://www.deviantart.com/

i already have PLUNTY of replacement icons. but i still need to know if it's possible to replace the yellow one by not hacking the shell32.dll file or using any programs.

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.

JohnDemolition,

You obviously didn't read the link I posted at the begining of this thread as the info for editing that file was posted in it.

i did, but i didn't find anything there relating to changing the default icon(i just skimmed through the posts anyways).

Glenn: i'll try that. thanks!

edit:editing that registry entry didnt do it

I didn't even think to look in Tweak UI, it offers the ability to fix the My Music icon.

It's in:
Repair->Repair My Music icon

use tweak ui program.then rebuild my music icon