Guest Amandar097 Posted August 5, 2009 Posted August 5, 2009 Hi Ramesh, Can you tell me what I need to do to get the shell folder back for my Roaming folder? The instructions you gave in another post worked for my Music folder, but I can't find information on the Roaming folder. Thanks, Amanda "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote: > Hi Steve, > > This happens if the desktop.ini file in the Contacts folder is missing, or lost its Hidden attribute. Make sure that a file named desktop.ini exists in the Contacts folder, with the following contents: > > - - - > [.ShellClassInfo] > LocalizedResourceName=@%CommonProgramFiles%systemwab32res.dll,-10100 > InfoTip=@%CommonProgramFiles%systemwab32res.dll,-10200 > IconResource=%SystemRoot%system32imageres.dll,-181 > - - - > > Then right-click on the Desktop.ini file and choose Properties. Enable the "Hidden" attribute, and click OK. > > See also: > > Shell folders are displayed with the standard folder icon in Windows Vista: > http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/130/1/ > > -- > Regards, > > Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] > Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com > > > "Steve" wrote in message news:A4B40852-1BBB-484E-BCCF-E208D53EB53A@microsoft.com... > For some reason I have lost one of the icons for a folder in my users folder. > (Vistas replacement for xp's my documents folder). The icon in question is > for the "Contacts" folder. All the others are still there its just the > contacts icon that is missing. The folder is there but has a generic folder > icon. I have searched for it, even with an icon program that checks dll files > but still can't find it. > > Any help or ideas? > > Thanks > Quote
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