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To Restore the Default Icon for a Desktop Icon. A) In the middle pane, select (click on) a desktop icon that you want to restore the default icon for, and click on the Restore Default button. (See screenshot below) 5. Click on OK to apply. (See screenshot above or below step 3A) 6. Close the Personalization window.
To change the desktop user icon, right click on desktop>Personalize>Change Desktop Icons and click your user icon and click the "Change Icon" button. At the top, it will have a field where you can browse for a source file. Browse to and select the imageres2.dll file. It will open all the Vista icons allowing you to select the Vista user folder.
When you change the desktop icon size via right click > view > xxxxxxx, Explorer actually writes the old/current value to the shell bags tree. That is why you did not see the registry value change. If you select the desktop and press F5 (refresh), then you should see that registry value update to reflect the actual icon size.
To Manually Reset or Change Icon Cache Size using Registry Editor. 1. Press the Windows+R keys to open the Run dialog, type regedit, and click/tap on OK. 2. If prompted by UAC, then click/tap on Yes (Windows 7/8) or Continue (Vista). 3. In regedit, navigate to the location below. (see screenshot below) 4.
Open the Control Panel (icons view) in Windows 7 or Windows 8, and click/tap on the Mouse icon. 2. Close the Control Panel window. 3. Click/tap on the Pointers tab, and do step 4 or 5 below for what you would like to do. (see screenshot below) 4. To Allow Themes to Change Mouse Pointers.
To Disable Changing Default Desktop Icons. A) Click on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 3 below. 3. Save the .reg file to the desktop. 4. Right click the downloaded .reg file on the Desktop and click on Merge. 5. Click on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK when prompted. 6.
Here's How: 1. Open the Windows Explorer folder or library window that you wish to change the view of the icon sizes in. 2. Click on the View menu bar item and select either the Extra Large Icons, Large Icons, Medium Icons, or Small Icons option. (see screenshot below) OR. 3.
See if that stays the same. Can you try deleting one shortcut, then going to the everest folder, choose the .exe and choose send to desktop after right-clicking the icon. Then reboot. See if that stays the same. The icons are also the generic ones under start>all programs. Only the ones that are generic on the desktop.
On some on my shortcuts that "Change Icon" box is grayed out. I've researched for hours and can't figure it out. I'm running Windows 7 as an administrator. Under the security tab all users (System, Steve, and Administrators have "Full Control". One of the icons is the Windows Explorer icon that is pinned to the task bar.
Step 1: Let’s try to uncheck this option first and then arrange the icons by grid and check if the issue persists. Follow this step to do the same. 1. Right click on an empty space on the Desktop-> Click on View. 2. Uncheck the option “Auto Arrange Icons”. 3. Check the option for “Align the icons to grid”.