Hi again, dan...
Right-click on the shortcut on your desktop and select
Properties. If it is a normal shortcut for the CD-ROM
drive, it should show, in the Target field on the
Shortcut tab, the address of your CD-ROM, e.g.:
"D:\" without quotes, or whatever letter of the
alphabet your CD-ROM drive is labelled with.
The nature of the CD-ROM and its interface with Windows
Explorer is such that the label of the drive, and the
icon displayed, will change with the type of CD inserted.
If you insert an audio CD, it will display the icon for
an audio CD, and display 'Audio CD' as the label for the
drive. If you insert a game CD, it will display the name
of the game. And a shortcut to "D:\" will produce these
same changes in the shortcut itself.
In order to work around this changeability, and ensure
that you can see all the files in the drive, no matter
what type of files they might be, you need to make the
shortcut so that it is associated with Explorer, and
not just the drive and drive letter.
To accomplish this, right-click on the shortcut on your
desktop and select Properties. In the Target field on
the Shortcut tab, in place of the address of your CD-ROM,
e.g. "D:\", copy and paste this, instead, changing "D:\"
to whatever the drive letter is for your CD-ROM:
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n, /e, D:\
Click Apply, and OK, and you will have a shortcut that
will display all the files on any CD in an Explorer
Window, and let you select whichever ones you want.
It will have an unchangeable icon that looks like a
"My Computer" icon.
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