Re: Can't change shortcut icon

Replied to [zulu]s message :
I have been happily using Firefox for quite a long time as I found, when I first tried it, that I could ctrl/scroll the font to a size to more than the five sizes then possible with IE6.
I had, in fact *uninstalled* (disabled really, I suspect) IE6 via
*Add/Remove Windows components.
A few weeks ago I decided to try IE7 and downloaded and installed it. It
seems to me that M$ have copied all the best features of Firefox, but for all that I decided I still preferred Firefox, so I *un installed* IE7.
Now, if I drag the icon at the start of the url at the top of a web page to my desktop I get an IE icon (shortcut) rather than a Firefox one.
If I go to Properties>Change Icon I gear a choice of three FF icons to choose from. Pick any one, apply and OK and what do we get? the IE Icon. I can find no way to change this behaviour.

I have just downloaded a fresh copy of Firefox 2, and after uninstalling Firefox and checking that IE is still uninstalled, I restarted and Installed the new Firefox.

All to no avail though.:-((

I really don't know what else to try.

|zulu|



What's here :
Start-Run-Regedit :
[HKCR\url\] Default
AND
[HKCR\InternetShortcut\DefaultIcon] Default

HKCR=HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

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