Rebuild Desktop Icons

[boaster]

How do I rebuild the Desktop Icons for My Computer, Network Neighborhood, etc. They're suddenly missing. Clicking "Rebuild Icons" in TWEAKUI didn't work.

 

[Comtech]

Open Control Panel, Themes, select a theme, apply, then go back to whatever.
Are you sure you haven't got "hide icons when viewed as web page" enabled? Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[reghakr]

Have you been "playing" in the registry?

reghakr

 

[boaster]

There are no desktop themes installed on my system.

When I booted, Windows told me that the most recente save of my registry was invalid and that it was restoring a previous save. That's when this occurred. Thanks.

 

[goway]

Start computer with EBD floppy - with CDRom support and install windows over the top of itself. Easy fix.

 

[Mosaic1]

For Network Neighborhood go to Control Panel>Network and reinstall Client For Microsoft Networks.


For My Computer ETC? Which others are you missing?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\DesktopNamespace
That's where they reside, but you may be missing the CLSID entries as well. There may be more work to do.

Here's my Key and what is there. Have a look and compare. Post back. If you are missing these entries, you can copy this and save it as icons.reg. Double click to enter in to the registry. I use Internet Explorer 6 and I think they changed the icon location information for that. (Maybe someone els could hava a look and compare theirs with mine, please?)Therefore, if you use another version other than IE6.0 Do not enter that in. Use the alternative reg file I am going to post in BOLD underneath this one instead.


REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
@="Recycle Bin"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}]
@="My Computer"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{450d8fba-ad25-11d0-98a8-0800361b1103}]
@="My Documents"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}]
@="Internet Explorer"


REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
@="Recycle Bin"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}]
@="My Computer"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{450d8fba-ad25-11d0-98a8-0800361b1103}]
@="My Documents"

 

[Mosaic1]

One thing quickly. Do you have the Active Desktop enabled? If so have a look here:
Display Properties>effects
There is a box "Hide icons when Desktop is viewed as Web Page" Is that checked? If so, uncheck it and click Apply and OK.