icon problem

[chamaco9]

i recently copied the information from a windows 98 cd by highliting all the info and dragging it into the cd drive as win98...the problem is is that now my icon for my my cd drive is a cd with the windows logo on top of it...how do i get rid of it...is there a way...let me know...thanks

[howste]

I'm a little bit confused. Do you mean you copied the Win98 CD to another CD and now the CD drive has the Windows icon? Is the icon always there regardless of what CD is in the drive?

There's a file CDs have in the root directory called Autorun.inf that tells Windows what to do when the CD is inserted. Inside this file is a line that says icon= and the name of the icon file which is displayed when the CD is inserted. If I understood you correctly, the icon got "stuck there" and never goes away.

Here's what I would try. The name/path of the icon is stored in the registry at the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AutoRun\4\Defa ultIcon

The 4 after Autorun is the sequential number of the drive (i.e. A:=0, c:=2, d:=3, etc.). Find the one you want to get rid of and delete the value of the key. Of course you'll want to BACK UP THE REGISTRY FIRST!

If I misunderstood you, or if this doesn't work, post back and we can try again.

Good luck http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Steve

[chamaco9]

im sorry i wasnt really clear..i hope i can give you some more info...the thing is is i put in the windows 98 cd in my cd rom. i wanted to copy win98 into my C drive. i clicked on the icon that had the windows 98 cd on ( being E drive (cd rom)) opened it up, and highlited all the folders and dragged them in the C drive...it copied it and all then when i went back to see my C drive icon, it had the same icon the windows 98 cd had in the cd rom...now it wont go away...i hope that is enough info...i want to make it go to the hd icon...let me know if you have any problems understanding me

[howste]

OK, I understand now. Just find the autorun.inf file on the C: drive and delete it, or open the file and delete the line that says icon=.

Steve