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re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts' Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 5:04 am Posted by MartinM (7549 messages posted) Start your story again at the beginning, please :-) What were you trying to achieve ? What exactly did you do ? What exactly happened ? Did you back up your Registry before starting ? Have you tried a System Restore to a time before you made the changes ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Change the icon for Internet Shortcuts' Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 5:29 am Posted by Ricer46 (23823 messages posted) You should have referenced the article that guided you, but I did manage to find it. (http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-405) First don't make the common mistake of confusing Internet Explorer with Explorer. You should also know enough about Explorer, that the File Types tab is found under Tools, Folder Options, since you don't, then you shouldn't be attempting hacks such as this. You should have read all of the posts regarding this procedure, and perhaps you would have understood that all it accomplishes is changing the icon for IE, not individual web pages as so many expected. I suspect you really want the specific url icons to persist... if so, Google favicons and read. On Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 2:34 am, tinkerbell wrote: >There's NO such option in the "view" menu, nor anywhere else in the explorer bar, >so I only screwed all of my internet icons by deleting the regedit key !!! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum