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Name: upurz2
Date: July 24, 2006 at 15:08:02 Pacific
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: P4 3.4Ghz., 1GB RAM
Product: Homegrown
Comment:

Minor problem but it has been bugging me for a while.

My K: drive displays the icon for 'Photo Album' on the right pane, bottom right, in Explorer. In otherwords it is like a customized folder.

AFAIK only folders should have this capability, not the drive!. I do not have access to the customize folders context menu for this drive so I can't get rid of it that way.

There must be a Reg entry for this. Any ideas on how I can get rid of the icon?

As I said it's not a big deal it's more of a curiosity.



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Name: CrazyOne
Date: July 24, 2006 at 15:30:23 Pacific
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"As I said it's not a big deal it's more of a curiosity."

"'Curiosity', killed the cat." Might kill something else though. ;-)

Try a reg search, for "DriveIcons" (Without the quotes, and exact match). See if that's helpful. Use the/this info, at your own risk :-) Good Luck


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Response Number 2
Name: upurz2
Date: July 24, 2006 at 15:44:46 Pacific
Reply:

Nothing under DriveIcons. I happen to use DriveIcons to assign names to my optical drives so I am familiar with what is there.

Anyone have any other promising Reg entries I could look at? Does anyone know where the 'Customize This Folder' options are stored? That might be a good starting point for me.



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Response Number 3
Name: CrazyOne
Date: July 24, 2006 at 16:36:33 Pacific
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Glad to see you're 'familiar', with what is 'there'. And 'there', might be, might be more than just there. Where ever there is, as you say. Don't say that to fast.. ;-) Thought you were talking of drive icons, not folders. But oh well, good luck. p.s. a small/little file placed... nevermind, as that doesn't matter, sorry


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Response Number 4
Name: upurz2
Date: July 24, 2006 at 16:37:32 Pacific
Reply:

Finally found a VBscript to correct my problem.

For those of you that have an incorrect Folder Template(s) you can check out the thread I included below.

I used the VBS file that one of the posters created and included in his post.

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize/browse_thread/thread/b33563104233c588/d7dd4582cc4b2e99?lnk=st&q=&rnum=4#d7dd4582cc4b2e99



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