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Unable to use LARGE icons in my Start Menu
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Unable to use LARGE icons in my Start Menu
Monday, February 11, 2008 at 7:21 am
Posted by Mike Gorman
(6 messages posted)
Vista SP1-
I am trying to configure to use large icons in my Classic start menu.
When I uncheck "Show small icons in Start menu" I then have large icons, as I want.
However when I reboot the small icons are back and the "Show small icons in Start
menu" box is checked again.
When I change to "regular" Start menu and check "Use Large icons" I am not able to
get any large icons.
When I go to HKCU-Control Panel-Desktop-WindowMetrics and manually edit the registry
(Shell Icon Size) that doesn't help either.....
Anybody have any ideas?
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re: Unable to use LARGE icons in my Start Menu
Monday, February 11, 2008 at 7:58 am
Posted by alex
(2069 messages posted)
Try this key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"Start_LargeMFUIcons"=dword:00000001
On Monday, February 11, 2008 at 7:21 am, Mike Gorman wrote:
>Vista SP1-
>
>I am trying to configure to use large icons in my Classic start menu.
>
>When I uncheck "Show small icons in Start menu" I then have large icons, as I want.
>
>However when I reboot the small icons are back and the "Show small icons in Start
>menu" box is checked again.
>
>When I change to "regular" Start menu and check "Use Large icons" I am not able
to
>get any large icons.
>
>When I go to HKCU-Control Panel-Desktop-WindowMetrics and manually edit the registry
>(Shell Icon Size) that doesn't help either.....
>
>Anybody have any ideas?
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re: Unable to use LARGE icons in my Start Menu
Monday, February 11, 2008 at 8:29 am
Posted by Mike Gorman
(6 messages posted)
Wow! That was quick! Thanks Alex!
:-)
That key was already configured with a "1".
I changed it to a "0" rebooted and then changed it back to "0" and unchecked the
box "Show Small icons in the Start menu" and then rebooted again.
The icons changed back to Small and the box was again checked "Show Small icons in
the Start menu".
One other thing... when I check the box "Show Small icons in the Start menu" I do
see Large icons in the main Start menu (until I reboot), but do not see Large icons
in the sub-menus (Programs, Settings, Search, etc.).
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On Monday, February 11, 2008 at 7:58 am, alex wrote:
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>Try this key:
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>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
>"Start_LargeMFUIcons"=dword:00000001
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re: Unable to use LARGE icons in my Start Menu
Monday, February 11, 2008 at 11:15 am
Posted by alex
(2069 messages posted)
Maybe "NoSaveSettings" is in force? so it wouldn't save the settings .Try it.Don't
know what else.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Program Manager\Restrictions]
"NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Program Manager\Restrictions]
"NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000
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On Monday, February 11, 2008 at 8:29 am, Mike Gorman wrote:
>Wow! That was quick! Thanks Alex!
>
>:-)
>
>That key was already configured with a "1".
>
>I changed it to a "0" rebooted and then changed it back to "0" and unchecked the
>box "Show Small icons in the Start menu" and then rebooted again.
>
>The icons changed back to Small and the box was again checked "Show Small icons
in
>the Start menu".
>
>One other thing... when I check the box "Show Small icons in the Start menu" I do
>see Large icons in the main Start menu (until I reboot), but do not see Large icons
>in the sub-menus (Programs, Settings, Search, etc.).
>
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re: Unable to use LARGE icons in my Start Menu
Monday, February 11, 2008 at 11:47 am
Posted by Mike Gorman
(6 messages posted)
Thank you again, Alex!
I didn't have any of those three keys in my registry. I added all three and configured
as you posted and rebooted. The same problem still exists — changing the 'save on
exit' wouldn't seem to be the fix for the fact that I am unable to even get the large
icons to appear at all on the submenus to save them.... but good try though. Thanks
for the help!
:-)
On Monday, February 11, 2008 at 11:15 am, alex wrote:
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>Maybe "NoSaveSettings" is in force? so it wouldn't save the settings .Try it.Don't
>know what else.
>
>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
>"NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000
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>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Program Manager\Restrictions]
>"NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000
>
>[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Program Manager\Restrictions]
>"NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000
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re: Unable to use LARGE icons in my Start Menu
Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 12:21 am
Posted by Mike Gorman
(6 messages posted)
I made progress...
I deleted this registry key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2]
and now the main Classic Start menu is displaying large icons, but I am still unable
to get large icons on the sub-menus.
On Monday, February 11, 2008 at 11:47 am, Mike Gorman wrote:
>Thank you again, Alex!
>
>I didn't have any of those three keys in my registry. I added all three and configured
>as you posted and rebooted. The same problem still exists — changing the 'save on
>exit' wouldn't seem to be the fix for the fact that I am unable to even get the
large
>icons to appear at all on the submenus to save them.... but good try though. Thanks
>for the help!
>
>:-)
>
>
>
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