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XP Pro file and folder icons now look like shortcuts

shayser · 2009-02-10 20:10:23

In My Computer, the icon for one of my mapped drives has changed and now looks similar to a shortcut icon. The normal shortcut icon has a black up-arrow, this new thing is a smaller blue down-arrow. Inside the network drive all files and folders have changed in the same way also. All other local and network drives are…

10-02-2009 8:10pm

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shayser

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In My Computer, the icon for one of my mapped drives has changed and now looks similar to a shortcut icon. The normal shortcut icon has a black up-arrow, this new thing is a smaller blue down-arrow. Inside the network drive all files and folders have changed in the same way also. All other local and network drives are fine. Anyone know what this is?

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#2 12-02-2009 6:29pm

JonathanAnon

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Are you sure that the network drive is still available? If you are sure that it is I would just recreate the drive mapping.. I dont know your specific mapping but you will need to do it through Tool | Map Network Drive in Control Panel.

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