This works on a network drive as well. Basically you are just copying the
newly created desktop.ini file per the procedure outlined above.
--
Bob


"Chris" wrote:

> indigoblue wrote:
> > Hi, I've moved all of my user folders (documents, music etc) to a network
> > location using both the right click and drag and drop method. Everything
> > seems to be OK, except instead of the new blue/green icons, the folders now
> > have the normal yellow icons...
> >
> > This wouldn't be much of a problem, but the Links pane in explorer shows
> > these icons (the desktop folder shows up with a BIN con).
> >
> > Any ideas of how I can fix this?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Paul
> I had the same problem on my local secondary partition when I moved
> stuff. I realized that during the "move" I was telling Vista to not copy
> over the file that gives the Vista blue icon.
>
> This is what I did. I reset the location of my shell folders back to
> default, and chose not to copy the data files back. This reset the icons
> to blue, and the locations back to my user folder. I then went back to
> properties for each shell folder, and then moved, a second time, each
> shell location to the new location on the other partition and this time
> made sure that I allowed every file to get copied to the new location. I
> don't know if this will work on a network.
>