My compter Icon

[rdalling]

Ok minor brain cramp, I cant remeber where to set the icon for My computer and my searching this forum is also not producing anything.

Anybody remeber this off the top of their head?

Roger

[Sunil]

right click on desktop> properties> desktop> customise desktop> general tab....change as you wish

[rdalling]

for WinPE, you dont have a desktop icon so I'm looking for a registry setting...

[rdalling]

Nevermind, I found it

[HKEY_Local_Machine\Test\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]

@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\

00,5c,00,65,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\

65,00,2c,00,30,00,00,00

Roger

[Loof]

Remind us. How do you use this registry key to turn on the My Computer icon?

[Sunil]

sry, didnt pay attention to the name of the forum thread......

[rdalling]

In WinpE you dont get a my computer icon if you open notepad and browse for files, this registry key can set that icon so it looks normal to the end user...

Roger

[likuidkewl]

I don see this key what is the actual name of the key. When i load the software.hiv I don't see that key in the SOFTWARE\Microsoft\windows\current version\explorer\ and then there is no clsid string it that bad boy.

[piro]

I always solve this problem by extracting the explorer icon form explorer.exe and copying it to the system32 folder and then adding the folowing reg key (to the software hive):

[HKLM\Software\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}]

"DefaultIcon"="explorer.ico"

piro

[likuidkewl]

Thanks man.

When you extract the icon do you take all of the resources, or just the "my computer" icon?

[piro]

@likuidkewl

Just i open explorer.exe using "resource hacker" and go to the "icon group" section and save the first icon, so that i have all icon sizes with the different color depths in one icon.

piro

[likuidkewl]

It didn't work anyhow. I still get the no icon in the open box, for example from notepad.exe file -> Open

[piro]

@likuidkewl

I can assure you it worked for me and it should work with anyone, keep in mind that the path i gave you to the reg key is the normal one, not after loading your hive, so just to make sure, if you loaded your software hive under the HKLM and give it the name PE_Software, the key should look like this:

[HKLM\PE_Software\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}]

"DefaultIcon"="explorer.ico"

if it didn't work, let me know what you exactly did.

piro

[likuidkewl]

I did that, when I get home I will check the spelling and the like.

EDIT

It was the directory locale, i left it as %systemroot% oops

Thanks again!