Solved Drive Icon showing shortcut arrow......


Vimes

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Hi

I used the upgrade assistant to upgrade to Windows 11pro. Everything went well and everything seems to work fine, except.....

drive 2.jpg

if you take a look at drive G it will show it as a shortcut type of an icon, well at least it has the shortcut arrow there to a local SSD drive.
My other NVME drives, and all my network or mapped drives are showing as they should.
I have my D and G drives, SSD. My C and E are NVME. All are showing fine within Device Manager etc and all work as expected.

After noting the above I did delete the file IconCache.db within my account and logged out and back in, still the same.

Not a big issue as such, just strange that the one drive has that shortcut type icon associated with it.

any ideas..?

Drive Manager seems fine, no issues with the drive etc....

drive management.png

Thanks
 
Windows Build/Version
Windows 11 x64Pro Build 194

My Computers

System One System Two

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro build 25H2
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Home brew
    CPU
    Intel 265k
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite
    Memory
    32GB DDR5 Corsair Dominator 7200Mhz
    Graphics Card(s)
    FE Edition 4080
    Sound Card
    onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer 32" 4k IPS monitor
    Screen Resolution
    4k
    Hard Drives
    Various NVME and two SSD's
    PSU
    Antec ATX 3.1 1200w
    Case
    Meshify 2 XL
    Cooling
    Corsair Nautilus 360 AIO
    Keyboard
    Mechanical blue switch
    Mouse
    G502 Lightspeed Wireless
    Internet Speed
    FTTP 500Mb
    Browser
    Edge
    Antivirus
    Microsoft
  • Operating System
    Windows 11 Pro 24h2
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    NUC N100 type model and System 3 but an N150 CPU
    CPU
    Alder Lake 3.4Ghz 4 Core
    Motherboard
    built in SOC
    Memory
    16GB DDR4 3200Ghz
    Graphics card(s)
    Internal GPU to the CPU
    Sound Card
    nah
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung Syncmaster 913n VGA but used headless mainly.
    Screen Resolution
    1280x1024
    Hard Drives
    NVME 512GB and a SATA SSD at 1TB
    PSU
    I reckon so, external type
    Case
    yup it has one of those
    Cooling
    probably
    Keyboard
    only attached for rare local access
    Mouse
    not really needed but attached. Old Logitech, with a ball...!
    Internet Speed
    FTTC 500GB.
    Browser
    Edge
All sorted, someone kindly helped me from another forum - it isn't a shortcut icon but an indication that the drive is being shared elsewhere.
I forgot that it is indeed shared on another PC - hence the green share icon.
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro build 25H2
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Home brew
    CPU
    Intel 265k
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite
    Memory
    32GB DDR5 Corsair Dominator 7200Mhz
    Graphics Card(s)
    FE Edition 4080
    Sound Card
    onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer 32" 4k IPS monitor
    Screen Resolution
    4k
    Hard Drives
    Various NVME and two SSD's
    PSU
    Antec ATX 3.1 1200w
    Case
    Meshify 2 XL
    Cooling
    Corsair Nautilus 360 AIO
    Keyboard
    Mechanical blue switch
    Mouse
    G502 Lightspeed Wireless
    Internet Speed
    FTTP 500Mb
    Browser
    Edge
    Antivirus
    Microsoft
  • Operating System
    Windows 11 Pro 24h2
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    NUC N100 type model and System 3 but an N150 CPU
    CPU
    Alder Lake 3.4Ghz 4 Core
    Motherboard
    built in SOC
    Memory
    16GB DDR4 3200Ghz
    Graphics card(s)
    Internal GPU to the CPU
    Sound Card
    nah
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung Syncmaster 913n VGA but used headless mainly.
    Screen Resolution
    1280x1024
    Hard Drives
    NVME 512GB and a SATA SSD at 1TB
    PSU
    I reckon so, external type
    Case
    yup it has one of those
    Cooling
    probably
    Keyboard
    only attached for rare local access
    Mouse
    not really needed but attached. Old Logitech, with a ball...!
    Internet Speed
    FTTC 500GB.
    Browser
    Edge

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