Friday, June 6, 2008

Change the Internet Explorer shortcuts

What is your favorite browser? It’s up to you, am not in survey mode J But, I prefer Firefox to IE.

In Microsoft supremacy, they has made every effort to make the IE (Internet Explorer) to appear as contemplation, they want to said that IE is the only choice for browsing the web. Even that it icon are design seemingly impossible to make something as simple as a change icon Shortcut to all Internet Explorer, but I found a way how to do this:



Note: You should have the ability to use windows registry to follow this tips.

  • First Run the Windows Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE), from the Windows Start menu click RUN then type REGEDIT
  • Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ InternetShortcut (see the pictures below)
  • Double-click on the EditFlags value (from the right pane), and change it's value to 00 00 00 00.
  • And Next is open the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ InternetShortcut\shellex, and delete the IconHandler key (from the left pane).
  • Close the windows Registry Editor if you think you're done.
  • Now, open Windows Explorer, navigate to Folder Options from the View menu, and choose the File Types tab.
  • Now, Find and select Internet Shortcut from the list, click Edit, and then click Change Icon select the icon you wish to use.
  • And when you're done select an icon, click Ok in every opened Window.


Now go to your desktop and see the results. This tips should work in all windows version including windows 95, windows 98, windows 2000, windows XP, windows NT server, windows 2003 and also windows Vista. Please note that I do not responsible if your windows registry got crash by applying this tips, those you should at least understand how to use the windows registry.

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