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Removable disk default icon and shell command, broken after virus removal

Removable disk default icon and shell command, broken after virus removal

I just got rid of a rather annoying virus that spreads on removable disks. The problem is that I can no longer double click a removable drive, and it seems to be showing the folder icon rather than the removable disk icon. I have tried to change the "folder" and "drive" types both in Folder Options (although the edit button is greyed out for some reason), and in the registry, and neither seem to have much effect on the removable disk. Even when I add another option eg. "open2" to Folder that runs explorer.exe, it appears in the right click menu for the disk but I still get the same error message regardless of which option I click.

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Guest [Entry]

"Check the tools at this reference.
Since you know the drive letter where it was mounted, you could use the RemoveDrive tool.

There was one case where the remove disk icon
(in the tasktray actually) also reappeared after using RemoveDrive."