Re: Can't change shortcut icon

zulu wrote:
"Cliff Wild" <cliffwild@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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

--

Sorry, but I get no results when I run regedit and search for
those terms
I may be doing it incorrectly, as I woiuld not normally venture
there as I am almost blind.
I only dare push my luck _so_ far <g>

Can you run System Restore back to before your system got infected
with the I.E. 7 Plague?


I can't go back that far now :-(((

<rant>
Why on earth can't one permanently save known _good_ Restore Points!
<rant>

Is it that you can not even run System Restore or you do not have a
recent restore point that you would like to use? I was infected by
the I.E. 7 Plague at my last windows undated and after removing it I
am still feeling the pain.

I have become accustomed to making sure I create restore points
manually if I feel exporting keys are not good enough. I also make
an image of the drive just before I do something that really scares
me. I burn an image once a month anyway just in case and have had
more than one occasion to use it.

Better have a restore disk handy also even if you think you will
only be doing something as simple as backing up O.E.


I can SR ok. but the dozen or so points that I have are all after IE7
install.

As for disc images and all that, I haven't a clue.

A lot of stuff that I should do doesn't get done because the
<deleted> folk thay wrote the software couldn't imagine soneone not
being able to read thhe small print...
This is why I dare not attempt a reinstall. :-(((


The dreaded reinstall is sometimes needed I guess. I have a spare drive
with a virgin install just waiting to get molested for the first time.

I try to select a good time to write on image to a spare and keep that on a
shelf also. I would suggest that if you have a spare drive. Sometimes it is
quicker to pop that in than spend a week debugging something. I have a few
dozen drives in drawers that pop into a bay and can be swapped any time with
all two systems. Important if you have archives of video and photos not to
mention the music to preserve.

Cliff



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