Ok I want to Customize all of the Icons in my program files folder and a few other places for my unattended Install, but I seem to be missing somthing.

When you customize a folder in XP it creates a desktop.ini file with Info such as the info below, but it seems that somthing else is done. If I manually create the Desktop.ini in a folder that hasnt had one it will not apply to the folder. After you tell windows to create the file changeing to a different icon works and deleteing the file defaults the Icon.

I have checked and found that the icon changes are global, but when I watch the registry for changes while setting icons only HKLU is changed and that is simply adding to the Last accessed .ico extension.

I was going to write a program to do this, or at least a script; but I simply cannot figure out what else is happening to make the desktop.ini be read.

Desktop.ini

[.ShellClassInfo]

IconFile=%ProgramFiles%\Spybot - Search & Destroy\FolderIcon.ico

IconIndex=0

Ok well I figured out what the problem was, but not why. It seems that inorder for my desktop.ini to work the attrib properties on the folder must be read only, but It seems that I have to use the Command line attrib. Just checking the Read Only box dosnt do it. Anyone have an Idea as to why?