Windows 10: Can't change drive icons to default

Hi,


So I wanted to check my hard drive and my ssd health and i downloaded HardDiskSentinel. I saw what I wanted and noticed thad my drive icons have been changed. I decided to delete the program and after I deleted it the default drive icons turned into a blank paper with a folded edge. Is there a solution to this?


Thanks to everybody in advanced!

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I changed my taskbar icons and now I don't know how to change them back to their default icon...

Hi AZ,

Thanks for your response.

We would suggest you to perform these steps and check.

1. Press Windows + I key to open
   Settings
   
2. Click on Personalization
   and select Themes from the left pane.
   
3. Select Desktop icons settings. Check the option Allow themes to change Desktop icons.
   
4. Click on OK.
   
5. Go to Themes and change theme to any other. Check if the icons restore to default.
   

If the issue persists, then perform these steps to rebuild Icon cache

1. Click on Start menu and type
   CMD, right click on CMD and select Run as Administrator.
   
2. Copy and paste the below commands and press
   Enter after every command:
   

ie4uinit.exe -show

taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F

DEL /A /Q "%localappdata%\IconCache.db"


DEL /A /F /Q "%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\iconcache*"

shutdown /r /f /t 00

Note:
the last command will restart the PC.

Regards,

Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

Can´t change the default storage drive.

Hello.

I changed the default storage drive (from C: to D in "Settings>>System>>Storage, however the Windows continues to install all apps in C: drive. Any suggestion?

 

Can´t change the default storage drive.

In Windows 10, you can now select where your new Windows apps from the Store will install and save data to by default instead of on the Windows drive.

You can select to install new Windows apps to any internal or external drive, including SD cards, USB drives, and USB flash drives. You cannot use mapped network drives, and you can only use one location at a time to save apps to. The drives will not need to
be formatted to be able to use them to install and store Windows apps.

Windows 10 will only install new apps to the currently selected location.
Existing apps do not get moved to the new location. If you wanted your existing apps installed to the new location as well, then you could uninstall the apps you want, and install them again to have them installed to the new location. You can lose
the existing data for the app by doing this though.

Follow the steps to change the location of the apps.

• Open the Settings app, and click/tap on the System icon.
• Click/tap on Storage on the left side. On the right side under
  Save locations, select the drive you want New apps will save to.
• When finished, you can close Settings.

Note: The default location is
This PC for the Windows C: drive.

Make sure you're using version 1511 and that you have another hard drive location installed, then the menu will light up like this: