When I'm in the "Owner" folder, you get a list of various different folders: Music, Pictures, Documents as well as Desktop. This is where my problem lies, the desktop folder icon is no longer blue like the rest of them, it turned into a normal yellow looking folder. How can I get back the blue folder? Thanks.

Yes, I read that article, however, this is for the desktop icon and not the music icon. Also, the desktop icon, under properties does not have a "customize" tab.

I typed the first line into the search bar and hit enter. Then I copy and pasted the next 3 lines and I clicked save and the desktop icon still remained yellow :(
Is there something I may not be doing correctly?

(I also restarted the computer after just to check and still nothing...)

Okay, I open the run commmand.

Then I type in "notepad %USERPROFILE%\desktop\desktop.ini" (without quotations)

It open a notepad document entitled desktop, I then leave the first line blank and type in:

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21769
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-183

Then I go file, save, and close the document.

I open my user folder only to find that the desktop folder still hasn't changed.

Does this help?

The same thing happened to me, after I deleted my Desktop folder once. I remade the folder in Safe Mode, added content, and it worked.

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Mike

anyone have an answer for this... im having the same problem.

I'm having the exact same problem. Tried doing everything suggested here, even tried deleting the iconcache and restarting the system. Nothing helps. Somehow Windows disregards the desktop.ini file residing in the %USERPROFILE%\desktop\ folder and does its own thing and Desktop folder icon remains yellow. Anyone found a way to fix this ?

Nope. Tried dragging things to the desktop. Waited a while, even rebooted after a while, and still waited a while more. No change.

Actually Mike's suggestion just did its magic a few minutes ago and my desktop folder icon is now back to its original color. Thanks for the help!

well, my desktop icon also turned into yellow folder.after i dragged onto the desktop it automatically change back to its original.but the problem is now i got 2 desktop folder.i tried to delete 1 of them but it reappear again.