Icon Help
 

I was messing around with some Windows-skin programs and after I was finished with them, I uninstalled the program. Everything was fine except for this one minor detail: How do I get this icon back to normal?
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3356/desktop3au.jpg

Click tools--->folder options
Goto file types
select Drive
Click advanced
Click change icon
select the icon you want

That didn't work

What part?

Did you notice if the skin program changed the drive icon? The program may have installed a drive icon, then left the assignment pointing nowhere when the program and icon were uninstalled.

Check the registry to see if there's anything in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\C\DefaultIcon

If so, delete C and everything below.

Ahh yes, that worked cyrnel!!!!
Thanks a whole lot!

Good deal. A registry cleaner utility would have caught it but that was a sloppy uninstaller.

Hmmm... I have Registry Mechanic and that didn't catch it.

You're right. I was generous. Those cleaners that look for orphan paths should notice the problem but it'll vary. It might be an optional, low priority item. Many reg cleaners take a simplistic approach to avoid damaging the system. What with the breadth of Hunt & Peck skillsets, a "remove" checkbox can be the doorknob to Pandora's Box.

Also, the way drive icons are handled has changed between Windows versions and service packs. I could see special casing that registry branch right out of a feature list.