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genevh » Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:29 pm
OK....I was able to recreate your problem on my desktop. I resaved a JPG as a BMP using Windows Paint, and lo and behold, ended up with exactly what you have. Which got me to thinking.
Since you are trying to use this an icon, I did a search on icon creator and found
Easy Icon Maker and downloaded the free trial. Once installed, I opened it then did File -> Import From Graphics (which incidentally defaults to .BMP files, but it will just as easily open JPGs.) and found my bitmap file and opened it. I then saved it as an icon file. With this program you can also design your own icons. Incidentally, Icon Creator creates 32 pixel X 32 pixel Icons, so if what you are using is larger you won't see the entire picture. You could create a picture in PSE/CS and do a Save For Web and specify it to be that size.
Once you do that, right click the saved icon file and do Send To -> Desktop Create Shortcut.
Then, right click the newly created shortcut file, select Properties, and set the Target box in the Shortcut tab to what you want to open when you click the shortcut. Since you want to use this to open one of your EHD's, put "E:\" in the Target box. E happens to be one of my EHD's, use whatever letter your drive is in place of it.
You can then change the appearance of the shortcut to your newly created icon file by right clicking it, select Properties -> Shortcut tab -> Change Icon and point it to the icon file. Otherwise, if you are using this to open a drive, the icon will change to look like a drive just as they appear inside Windows Explorer. You can name the icon whatever you want also, just like any other.
That should solve your problem.
OH...and I have some JPG files on my desktop and they don't show up as thumbnails, either on the Desktop like you can get them to do in Windows Explorer. I think the desktop will only show icons, not thumbnails, unless you view the Desktop through Windows Explorer. But you can change the icons that are used, if you want to by file type.