How does the Windows 7 repair system fail to display the hard drive icon

Compared with XP, although the Win7 interface is very beautiful, but the use of time, will be tired, so many friends like to install personalized theme for Win7 or use other system tools to perform landscaping operations on it. But the problem also comes with this-that is, when people restore the system's default window interface, they often find that some hard disk icons do not display properly. In general, you can easily resolve this problem by simply emptying and rebuilding the icon cache and then restarting the system. If the measure remains ineffective, it is recommended that you use the method described below to resolve this issue.

Open any Windows window first, then click the menu organization → folder and search Options command to open the View tab of the Folder Options dialog box, and then check the hidden files, folders, and drives radio box and uncheck the Hide protected operating system files checkbox, and click OK button to display all files with hidden attributes, and then open the partition root directory where a hard disk icon does not display properly (in this case, the C-packing directory); Finally, the C-packing directory of the INF format configuration file "Autorun.inf" to delete, and restart the system can be.

Tip: How to delete and recreate an icon cache in Win7

Display all files with hidden attributes, then open the "c:userssyhlappdatalocal" directory (C disk is the system disk, SYHL for the currently logged on system Administrator account), delete the directory named "iconcache.db" file, and finally reboot the system, The system will automatically complete the Rebuild icon cache operation.

When you have done this, you will find that the hard disk icon that you originally failed to display is back to normal.