My hard drive icons are gone! Help :(?

Question

I just removed TuneUp Utilities from XP and now my hard drive icons have disappered and have been replaced by these ugly document icons...how can i get my hard drive icons to show as their originals again? This has been annoying me for quite some time. Please help me guys :(

Answer 1

Right click on the ugly document icon that's your hard drive and left click on properties. You should get a screen with a shortcut tab. In that tab there will be a box to change icon. You can select a different one from there.
Or, you can just open "My Computer" and drag new drive shortcuts to the desktop.

Answer 2

Microsoft homestead windows 2000 and XP customers enter the homestead windows gadget supervisor by ability of clicking: choose initiate > Settings > administration Panel. Double-click the equipment icon. click the Hardware tab. click the gadget supervisor button. In gadget supervisor you should verify the USB or 1394 force listed decrease than Disk drives. The USB force ought to additionally load a Mass storage gadget decrease than the common Serial Bus controllers heading. If the force exhibits good in gadget supervisor, then proceed to disk administration. If the force exhibits in gadget supervisor, yet has a yellow or pink mark, then double-click on the force to verify the source of the issue. OneTouch force fashions have a force lock determination. If a OneTouch force is locked it won't show up in gadget supervisor. in case you have faith the force is locked deploy the bundled utility and it would instantaneous for a password. i could upload there are numerous distinctive fashions of Maxtor exterior problematic Drives and you probably did not checklist your kind or your present day working equipment.

Answer 3

in empty area on your desktop ( not on top of icons), do a right click and click on Refresh.