WinXP system Local Disk icon changed five solutions

Encountered a netizen for help, his computer local disk icon, some normal, but some become unknown icon, help How to solve this problem. There are such problems, there are generally a number of reasons, one is the disk character confusion, the second is the icon cache out of the problem, the third is the registry is modified, four is the virus, five is the disk System file directory error. He was introduced to several methods, and eventually the disk icon problem was solved.

One of the methods: Reset the disk character

1, because the disk character disorder caused by the most abnormal icon, is also the easiest to solve, the solution is to reset the letter, the specific method: on the "My Computer" right click, select "Management."

2, after entering the management window, select "Disk Management" on the left, go to the right, select the disk with abnormal icon, such as data disk D, right, select "Change Drive name and path".

3, go to modify the window, directly select this D disk, first of the D disk "Delete", delete will have a hint, if the deleted disk has files running, first stop it. Then remove the D disk letter.

4, after deleting, select this "data Disk"-> right-> "Change drive name and path". This time select the "Add" button.

5, go to the Add window, first select "Assign the following drive letter", and then open the Drop-down box on the right to select a symbol (note that this symbol cannot be duplicated with other disks), such as "L" symbol, OK. Restart the computer after the change, the disk character of this data disc is changed back, if you feel that the disk order is disrupted, you can reset the L-disk character back to the D drive.

If the other disk is also unknown icon, the above method can be modified individually.

Method Two: Delete the icon cache

1, if the above method is invalid, it may be the icon cache out of the problem, reset icon caching method is, first delete the icon cache, the system will automatically rebuild the icon cache, so that the restoration of the disk icon, this method is very effective. The specific method, because this icon cache file is hidden, so first remove the system's hidden properties, first in the Explorer window in the Tools menu, select Folder Options.

2, after entering the Folder Options window, select "Show contents of system Folders" and "Show All Files and folders", then remove the "Hide protected operating system files (recommended)" Check, and press "Apply" and "OK" to remove the system hidden attributes.

3, and then in the Start menu to open the "Run" program, if it is an XP system, enter%userprofile%local settingsapplication data This section of code, OK. If this is a Win7 system, enter the code for%userprofile%appdatalocal, OK, and then expand organization and select folder and search options.

4, go to the icon cache folder, find "Iconcache.db" This file, that is, icon cache file, delete it. Restart the computer, the system will automatically rebuild a new icon cache file, so that the disk icon repaired.

Method Three: Modify the registration Form

1, if the above two can not repair the disk icon, it may be the registry has been modified, which requires access to the registry to repair the line, the operation method, first from the Start menu open "Run", enter the regedit command, open the registry.

2, after entering the registry, according to the [Hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionexplorer] path to find its next driveicons item, the right key to delete it. Then reboot the computer.

Method Four: Delete the Autorun.inf file

1, also, the icon may also be caused by the virus, the virus will be in the abnormal disk to build a Autorum.inf file, this is an automatic running file, need to go to "My Computer", select icon abnormal disk, such as the following D disk.

2, after entering D disk, find this Autorum.inf file, and then directly remove it, restart the computer, disk icon problem should be solved, if other disk icons are also abnormal, the same method to solve.

Hint: Such a file is generally hidden, to first remove the system hidden properties, the method above said, here no longer said.

Method Five: Disk check error

1, the disk icon is abnormal, sometimes installed some software or drivers, such as the case, they are not unknown icon, but the installation of a software icon, such as the installation of wireless network card driver, will appear wireless cards icon, the following figure.

2, due to the installation of some software, so that the disk's file system out of the question, the solution to this problem is the disk check error, the specific method is, in the icon error disk on the right button, select the window of the "tool", under the tool, click the "Start Error Check" button, in the Pop-up Check Disk window, tick the two items, press " Start ", after checking the wrong, restart the computer, the abnormal icon will return to return.

Precautions:

1, to modify the registry, it is best to back up the registry in advance in order to modify the error, to restore.

2, in addition to the above methods, you can also use the Software recovery icon, and some security anti-virus software with the icon repair function, with its repair can also solve the problem.