Recent content by taward

Well, I thought I had it. I tried the above procedure and it only worked for about 30 min. Why is this so hard?

@richardf That's a great find! I long suspected that OneDrive sync was the problem. So much so that I even tried to trick it by changing the icons on both of my laptops on the same time. That didn't work. I'm tempted to try the following as an experiment: Take both computers offline Change the...

I'm trying to resurrect this thread. I've dived back in to see if I can solve this and keep coming up empty. Has anyone, anywhere, figured this out or am I just destined for ugly folders?

@dvcphung no dice. I've left it alone for a while and learned to live with it. I tried to go in and just change the icons to default. A strange thing happened. Since I have changed the registry, the OneDrive folders are the default special folders (My Documents...) the correct icon would show...

Lastof...I'm back! Forgive me for my absence, things have been busy. But, my problem persists. A quick primer to answer your question: OneDrive is the built in cloud storage in Windows 8.1. I say built in b/c it is deeply embedded into the OS. But not so deeply that any of the OneDrive folders...

Swing and a miss. I had some trouble deleting most of those files due to access. I was able to get most of them deleted by killing explorer and going through the command line, but I couldn't get them all. But, alas, it didn't work either way. There has to be something else going on. Could this...

Scratch that. It survived a restart, explorer restart but did not survive sleep. I put it to sleep and they were gone when I woke it up. WTF is going on here?! Folder icons?! I mean, really?

That did it! Thanks so much lastof!!

Well...we were SOOOOO close. I did what you suggested and it seemed to work. It survived the restart but didn't survive a restart of explorer. After i restarted explorer, everything reverted back. Then, without changing anything, I restarted the system and only the OneDrive folder made it back...

Yup Windows pro 8.1. How would I know id a policy was corrupt? I ran your tool (thanks for that!) but I'm not sure what it's telling me or how to use it for this. Any Ideas?

@lastof Thanks for the interesting theory. I tried it out and here's what I found. The items I was changing in OneDrive are indeed folders not shortcuts. I confirmed this b/c I navigated there through the C drive and not the special folders. So that's the first thing. The second pice you...

I have anew instance of Windows 8.1 on a surface pro 3 and I can't get the folder icons of my OneDrive folder and and of the folders in it to change and stay changed. First, I changed the special folders (documents, pictures, music, etc.) to point to my OneDrive folders (why it doesn't do this...

Thanks for the reply. In reference to the second problem, it's not so much the speed at which it happens. The problem is the when it decides it's going to stop doing it. It starts without delay, but it disappears randomly without me moving my mouse.

I have windows 8.1 (fully updated on a surface pro. I find that when I have set the taskbar to always combine buttons and attempt to hover over a group of open windows and try to preview ("peek") at a given window, it will automatically disengage peek as though I moved my mouse off, even if I...