Comments on: Fix for Special Folders Reverting to Default Folder Icon in Windows Vista

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:06:19 +0000

Does anyone know the desktop.ini code for the user folder, the one that is your name? It changed to the yellow icon after I went to “desktop icon settings” and clicked “restore default” for my user folder, which was suggested on another site to try and restore the blue icon for my downloads folder (I did manage to fix the downloads folder using the tips here). I can’t find the code for the user folder desktop.ini anywhere!

By: Mandie

Mandie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:49:00 +0000

Thank you so much!
I had a huge problem when I accidently moved my ‘Pictures’ folder into ‘Downloads’ folder.
I got that all fixed, but the “pretty” icon was gone, and i tried many things to fix it.
This helped a LOT.

By: Nadiah

Nadiah — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:05:12 +0000

Hi,
I would like to ask why when i put the %USERPROFILE%\pictures\desktop.ini in the search menu, there would be always be no results.
Why is that so?

By: esther

esther — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:39:58 +0000

this does NOT work for me.
im having trouble with the music folder.
it suddenly changed after i downloaded frostwire so i even REMOVED frostwire and tried and it STILL doesnt work :/
and i dont want to copy and paste from the guests account because i have a lot of songs in there and i dont want to have to replace all of the on my itunes.. and yeahhh..

By: Din

Din — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:01:07 +0000

i have a question..
how can i put the folder icon into plain yellow folder icon rather it shows it’s content on it’s icon it self..
i hope you guys can help me..

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:11:20 +0000

THANKS A LOT!

By: doronb2

doronb2 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:28:40 +0000

BTW, its working with windows 7.
Thanks!

By: Johnny

Johnny — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:15:19 +0000

I have change for picture and music in which you have provides it us with the link to open them, my problem I can open the rest or I don’t know to.

How do you open the rest in notepad, e.g link, documents, searches, videos, favorites, contacts etc?

By: guzz

guzz — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:33:22 +0000

This may be off topic but what happened to public folder? I mean it’s yellow by default, I wonder if there’s somewhere else a free icon to make things look more even?

By: Nadeem

Nadeem — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:13:42 +0000

Figured out my own question with help from this site and google. Here is how I did it for the downloads folder.

1. Removed the hidden property of the desktop.ini file in appropriate folder (if hidden)
2. Get the command prompt through ‘run’ on the start menu by typing ‘cmd’
3. It starts up at ‘C:\Users\Username’
(if not then navigate to it. ‘cd..’ takes you up a folder, ‘cd foldername’ takes you into a folder)
4. Type ‘cd downloads’ enter. It then showed ‘C:\Users\Username\Downloads’
5. Double check the attributes of desktop.ini, by typing ‘attrib desktop.ini’, which showed ‘A’ only.
6. Type ‘attrib +s +h desktop.ini’.
7. desktop.ini is now hidden and a system file at the same time!

Thanks howtogeek for the command prompt attributes, and the solution on this page!