Comments on: How to Fix User Folders Showing Simple Folder Icon in Windows Vista?

By: hexaae

hexaae — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:56:14 +0000

Wanted to report that changing/re-editing desktop.ini for %userprofile%\Desktop\ was not enough: Vista still showed yellow std folder icon. To really fix it I've had to issue these extra commands from admin MS-DOS prompt:
attrib %userprofile%\Desktop +R
attrib %userprofile%\Desktop\desktop.ini +S +H +A

Hope this will help someone...

By: VG

VG — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:02:00 +0000

^^ It seems the folder got corrupted. Try to check its content using Command Prompt.

By: Bingdaddy

Bingdaddy — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:39:21 +0000

I have a similar problem in that the main folder that all of my music is in, is entitled "My Own Music". Well the folder has completely disappeared along with all of my music. There is now a generic file named "My Own Music" but it is loaded with code and can only be viewed in a text viewer.

The data is still on the drive somewhere, as it is still nearly full.

What can I do?

By: VG

VG — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:22:53 +0000

^^ Did you use any Icon pack in your system? It seems the icon cache has been corrupted. Please check the "FAQ" topic, it contains solution of corrupt icons.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:39:48 +0000

i have tried doing this many times, i will not work , perhaps its not for the propblem im having
when i press start and go to all programs, all the folders in there eg: acer, games, mcaphee almost all of them, the icon has been replaced with the one shown for All Files* its so frustrating i have no idea whats caused this and cant find a solution anyware, can any one help me??????? ( i am using windows Vista )

By: Elliott

Elliott — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:57:30 +0000

Thanks, but I just made a new account lol.

By: VG

VG — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:42:43 +0000

^^ Enable "Show hidden files and folders" and disable "Hide protected system files" option in Folder Options. Then open your Downloads folder. Now you'll find 2 files in it. Delete them and your problem will be solved.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:07:18 +0000

OK! Hi VG umm I guess I'll just post the link to the weirdness of my download folder icon even though nothing is in it. [IMG]http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t322/Mercsfan9/Capture.jpg[/IMG] http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t322/Mercsfan9/Capture.jpg

Yeah...idk. I did not download anything like that I cleaned my temp files and it still wont leave. So I tried the desktop.ini and it worked. but I delete my download folder contents alot so it would help if I could hide it somehow?

Email me directly at elliottkwong@gmail.com

By: GBK

GBK — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:53:31 +0000

Cool!! Thank you!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:12:01 +0000

omg! ty this tottaly fixed all my .ini problems xD