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How-To Geek Forums Topic: Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working? http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working? en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:17:02 +0000 Aleeve on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37173 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:08:18 +0000 Aleeve 37173@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Well, I made a screen shot, but I think there is something wrong with photobucket at the moment, because every time I try to go on it just goes onto the mobile one! I'll email it to you :) Aleeve on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37170 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:56:55 +0000 Aleeve 37170@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ What - my computer? Lighthouse on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37169 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:50:37 +0000 Lighthouse 37169@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Could you give us a screenshot of your Disk Management please? Aleeve on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37168 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:45:38 +0000 Aleeve 37168@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Oh yes, i hadn't seen that post you wrote about external drives No, D is a separate partition While we are at this, what is the importance of partitions? Mine just came with my laptop: C:\ and D:\ in one instance they were very useful when I had to revert to factory settings - it only reverted the C Drive which was just system files and programs, whereas all my files stayed on the D drive! (this was an old computer) Lighthouse on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37167 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:44:00 +0000 Lighthouse 37167@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Very good Aleeve. But going back to my previous post. If your D: drive is on an external (usb) drive. Then, not all of them pick up after a reboot. Aleeve on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37165 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:38:28 +0000 Aleeve 37165@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Ahah I just fixed it :) Thanks Lighthouse, I thought to look on D drive (where my documents folder is) So, for anybody out there If you have moved your documents folder to a different drive Search in start menu D:\documents\desktop.ini (substitute 'D' to whatever your drive name is) and that should load the file, if the command given by Geek does not work! AND: I worked out how to run explorer.exe after you have killed it quite proud of myself :) probably really easy for all you experienced geeks out there, but hey anyway To do this: if you have just closed Windows Explorer (task manager, processes, end process) Then, while still in task manager, click file>new task(run)>type 'explorer.exe' (without quotes) and press ok! Sorted! Lighthouse on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37164 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:37:59 +0000 Lighthouse 37164@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ ah. Is your D: drive on an external disk? Lighthouse on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37163 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:34:17 +0000 Lighthouse 37163@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Not at all. I have the same setup. Just point it to D: (and whatever you path is after that) Aleeve on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37162 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:30:47 +0000 Aleeve 37162@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Its not in c users because I moved documents, music, pictures, vids and favourites to my d drive? is this the problem? Lighthouse on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37159 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:11:17 +0000 Lighthouse 37159@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Don't start messing around in "system32". The one are looking for will be something like C:\Users\Aleeve\documents\desktop.ini The "Aleeve" being whatever your username is. Aleeve on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37158 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:07:21 +0000 Aleeve 37158@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Ok well before it all worked fine I just ran the notepad file, that came up, then i replaced the contents with the coding Geek added! Lighthouse on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37157 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:53:30 +0000 Lighthouse 37157@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ You need to have hidden system files shown, yes Aleeve on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37156 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:51:00 +0000 Aleeve 37156@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ there is a file in system32 called desktop.ini it is hidden the contents of it (notepad) is [LocalizedFileNames] migwiz.lnk=@%SystemRoot%\system32\migwiz\MIGUIRes.dll,-103 Aleeve on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37155 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:45:37 +0000 Aleeve 37155@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ when in the documents folder, on show hidden files there is a 'data base file' called PCM Aleeve on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37154 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:44:43 +0000 Aleeve 37154@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ What file am I searching for? find desktop ini? go show hidden files? Lighthouse on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37153 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:39:10 +0000 Lighthouse 37153@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Have a look, and see if the file you are searching for is there! billbonza on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37152 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:33:43 +0000 billbonza 37152@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Ooh, me first to commen! Dunno. Aleeve on "Documents Icon Gone Yellow - Geek's Solution Not Working?" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/documents-icon-gone-yellow-geeks-solution-not-working#post-37151 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:31:34 +0000 Aleeve 37151@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Ok, so I'm using this tutorial from Geek <a href='http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/why-did-windows-vistas-music-folder-icon-turn-yellow/'>http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/why-did-windows-vistas-music-folder-icon-turn-yellow/</a> it has worked previously So now I am trying to open this notepad file notepad %USERPROFILE%\documents\desktop.ini (what it says in the article) but it is coming up with this <a href="http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/TheAleeve/?action=view&current=Notepad.jpg"><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/TheAleeve/Notepad.jpg"></a> so i cannot overwrite it with the second code to revert to the proper icon!