Network Drive Icons won't refresh after mounting them

mamekedi · Jan 21, 2022

Hi All,

My first question after register this form :).
Network Drive Icons won't refresh after mounting them.

Photo 1 icons on the desktop (looks not ok)

Photo 2 Mounted drive in explorer my PC (looks oke)

As you can see the icons on my desktop won't refresh after mounting them.
How can i solve that the icons on my desktop are the same as the icons in my pc screen.

Tip!
After a (long) while the icons will change on my desktop, but i want them to change straight away after the mount

FreeBooter · Jan 21, 2022

Reset icon cache with attached batch script.

mamekedi · Jan 21, 2022

I already used a script like that:

the point is when i startup my computer no drive is mounted, i only mount the drives when needed with a vb script.
in your script the pc will reboot after running the actions needed. In my case this won't work.
is there any other solution.

FreeBooter · Jan 21, 2022

The computer needs to restart for the icon cache to rebuild itself. You can also run the script and restart File Explorer (explorer.exe) from Task Manager.

mamekedi · Jan 21, 2022

Oke i will test it, place a exit in your script before reboot after that i will restart explorer manually

FreeBooter · Jan 21, 2022

You don't have to place exit command, batch script ask you if you want to reboot typing N will exit the batch script or you can close the batch script when ask to reboot.

mamekedi · Jan 21, 2022

Yes sorry i saw it :)

mamekedi · Jan 21, 2022

The Icons will refresh now but if i unmount them and running the script again the icons on my desktop stays the same.
they are telling me it's mounted but it's not.

FreeBooter · Jan 21, 2022

Batch script only need to be run if the Icon cache corrupted.

mamekedi · Jan 21, 2022

oke :) but that won't solve the issue

glasskuter · Jan 21, 2022

When the icons change state in explorer, what happens if you go to your desktop and do a simple F5? Anything?

mamekedi · Jan 22, 2022

They don't change

glasskuter · Jan 22, 2022

This might sound like a weird thing to do but try this. Completely remove all your drive shortcuts from the desktop temporarily. Run the batch file to reset icon cache. Restart. Then mount just one drive and make a shortcut on your desktop while it is in mounted state. Unmount it to see if it changes to unmounted on desktop. If it does remount it and check state again.

If that doesn't work, it might be worth your time to enable the hidden administrator account to test if this issue is system wide or only in your account. From administrative command prompt type net user administrator /active:yes and enter (note the space after administrator)
Log out of your account and into the administrator account. Make a desktop shortcut and test if issue is in that account as well. If it works as it is supposed to there, then there is some sort of corruption in your account

When you are through testing in the administrator account, log out and log back into your account and disable the administrator account by opening administrative command prompt and typing net user administrator /active:no

mamekedi · Jan 22, 2022

I Will give it a try (i use the administrator account allready) thanks for you reply

glasskuter · Jan 22, 2022

mamekedi said:
i use the administrator account allready

BAD IDEA!!!
This hidden account is not meant to be used all the time. It is hidden for a reason and should only be used to troubleshoot problems in the OS and as an alternate means to give a user access to the system when his own account fails.

Are you sure you're using the hidden account named Administrator rather than one with administrative privileges? If you indeed are then to test my theory you would have to make another account to test.

mamekedi · Jan 22, 2022

My work is system administrator linux and Windows so i know what i'm doing

glasskuter · Jan 22, 2022

mamekedi said:
i know what i'm doing

Please excuse the post.

mamekedi · Jan 22, 2022

No problem at all thanks

mamekedi · Jan 27, 2022

if i delete the icon from the Desktop an create it again then the mounted icon is oke

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