How to Restore a Documents Folder in Vista
In Windows Vista, several of the folders under your user folder--such as the Documents folder--have special icons. If you delete the Documents folder, you can recreate it, but it will appear with the generic yellow folder icon rather than the original Documents icon. By creating a new Documents folder and editing a folder inside it, you can restore the folder along with its original appearance.
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Instructions
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Click the Start button, and then click "Computer." Double click the "Local Disk C:" icon, and browse to the "Users" folder and the folder with your Windows Vista user name.
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Right-click in an open area of the folder. Select "New" and "Folder." Name the folder "Documents," and close the window.
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Click the Windows orb located in the lower-left corner of the desktop. Type "notepad %USERPROFILE%\Documents\desktop.ini" without quotation marks and press "Enter." Notepad opens and displays a text document. Remove everything currently shown in the document.
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Type "[.ShellClassInfo]" without quotation marks in the first line of the text file and press "Enter."
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Type "LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21770" in the second line of the file.
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Type "IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-112" in the third line.
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Type "IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll" in the fourth line.
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Type "IconIndex=-235" in the fifth line. Save and close the file.
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Restart the computer. Your newly created Documents folder should now have the correct icon.
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