I currently have a NT 4.0 workstation on my network that, for some unknown reason, has replaced the little shortcut indicator arrow with the "My Computer" icon. Now all of the shortcuts are displayed with this big icon overlayed on top of all of the application icons. This makes it very difficult to tell what a shortcut is pointing to without reading the title below the icons.

Can anyone tell what may have happened and is there any way to restore it to normal without reinstalling NT? I feel like there is a registry setting i can restore, but have not been able to figure out which one. I have tried applying SP6a, reinstalling IE 5.5 SP1, and searched the MS Knowledge Base.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

i'm pretty sure it's a registry entry, just can't remember where it is [end of a long day and that...]

hope this helps

rb

The RegKey where you could set a Icon other than the 'little shortcut indicator arrow' is to be found in :
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons"
Use this to reset this:

code:

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DELKEY("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons")
ADDKEY("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons")

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Fabian.
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The solution is to delete the ShellIconCache file from the system directory (c:\WinNT) and reboot the computer. This may have to be done several times, but it finally works.

All of the folder icons look like the standard folder, but with something imposed over the top of them, a black square. I installed a game and it did this to my computer

Bryce