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My computer view icon has changed

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by kamran-saleem

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I have windows xp with adminstrative right. Yesterday i go to "my computer" icon on my desktop and saw that "my computer" view icon has changed. Before that it was shown in three catagories such as
"Files stored on this computer"
"Hard Disk Drive"
"Devices with removable storage"
Now all the hard drive icon and other icon on "mycomputer" is changed and alligned in a row. I have checked that the view of "my computer" is still set on icon but view has changed. Now i wanted to restore the original view icon of "my computer". Please help me how to do it.

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by shadowjack#1

TweakUI (unsupported software from Microsoft) can rebuild the icon cache, thus restoring the original icon appearance. If the position or order of the icons needs to be restored as well, right click in the My Computer window and change the arrangement options under Arrange By. Auto Arrange and/or Align to Grid will cause the icon alignment you described.

by mingteikg

Hi,

Let me suggest that you create a new user account, and if the new user account give you the default icons that you need, copy the files from C:\Document and settings\[newuseraccount]\Local Settings\ to your C:\Document and Settings\[olduseraccount]\Local Settings

P.s: backup your olduseraccount's Local Settings folder first.

If the new account also shows the changed icon, let me know.

Hope this helps.

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