Guest Dave Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 I'm running WinXP Pro and save all my data on my D: drive, including a folder with my favorite icons. In the past I've changed a large number of folder icons in my D: drive by copying the desktop.ini from one folder into the rest of the folders. The next time I brought up Windows Explorer, these changed icons appeared correctly in Windows Explorer. Recently I had to reinstall my operating system because of a virus that infected all the executable files on both drives. I restored several folder directories on my D: drive from backups. These backups included the original desktop.ini files with the changed icons, but now Windows Explorer will no longer read these desktop.ini files in these restored directories. Oddly, the changed icons show up in the original directory, which I plan to delete once I've copied the newer data not backed up into my new duplicate directory. I have even tried recopying the desktop.ini files over the top of themselves in this restored directory but the changed icons still do not appear. I can, however, change the icons one at time via the Properties windows but I am unable to change a group of them using the process I used before. Other notes: All folder attribute settings are set to Read-only (Contents of Desktop.ini in one group folder group) [.ShellClassInfo] IconFile=D:\Icons\Icon_0065.ico IconIndex=0 Any suggestions would be appreciated. Dave
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