re: desktop icons show as IE icons Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 9:32 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by alex (2811 messages posted) Open Regedit and see these two subkeys. Check the values there if the data values are like in mine.If not,change it.See the DefaultIcon. [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico] @="icofile" "PerceivedType"="image" "Content Type"="image/x-icon" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\PersistentHandler] @="{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\ShellEx] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile] @="Icon" "ImageOptionFlags"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\DefaultIcon] @="%1" On Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 9:15 pm, foxygrandma wrote: >Hmmmm, will try again. For some reason, would not paste all of my message, so I >will type it in. > >I wemt to C:\Documents and Settings, Anna Ruth, Local Setings, Temporary Internet >Files in Windows XP and they ae mostly .tmp, nothing in there with the name Favicons. > I made a folder and named it Favicons, but when I would try to copy the items into >the folder.I kept getting an error messge saiyng Error Copying File or Folder. that >it is being used by another person or program. > > > > Written in response to: re: desktop icons show as IE icons (foxygrandma: Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 9:15 pm) Responses to this message: re: desktop icons show as IE icons (foxygrandma: Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 10:21 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] desktop icons show as IE icons (foxygrandma: Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 6:47 pm) re: desktop icons show as IE icons (Bobcat: Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 8:12 pm) re: desktop icons show as IE icons (foxygrandma: Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 9:03 pm) re: desktop icons show as IE icons (foxygrandma: Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 9:15 pm) re: desktop icons show as IE icons (alex: Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 9:32 pm) re: desktop icons show as IE icons (foxygrandma: Sat, Dec 27, 2008, 10:21 pm) re: desktop icons show as IE icons (alex: Sun, Dec 28, 2008, 9:42 am) re: desktop icons show as IE icons (foxygrandma: Sun, Dec 28, 2008, 2:14 pm) re: desktop icons show as IE icons (Rich Kurtz: Sun, Dec 28, 2008, 6:11 pm) re: desktop icons show as IE icons (foxygrandma: Sun, Dec 28, 2008, 11:21 pm) re: desktop icons show as IE icons (Bobcat: Sun, Dec 28, 2008, 6:41 am) re: desktop icons show as IE icons (foxygrandma: Sun, Dec 28, 2008, 7:27 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum