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Well That Was Fun... There ought to be an easier way, but I downloaded something called "Resource Hacker" and took a chance on wiping out my executable with it. It seems to have worked. I have a program called IcoFX that didn't want to adjust icon sizes beyond those already defined in the...

I can try...

I have tried to research this, but any possible answer gets drowned out by all the listings for web pages telling you how to make ALL your desktop icons a different size. That's not at all the situation I'm dealing with. Most of my desktop icons are the size I want them to be, but there are a...

As I said in my previous post, I don't want to disable those services. I can't imagine what this mysterious "unknown factor" is. I haven't had this machine up and running long enough to have hacked a bunch of custom stuff into it. The only thing that might be a deviation is that this is...

I booted my machine today, and the Homegroup icon had returned to the desktop. I got rid of it (again temporarily) by refreshing the desktop, but that's not the point. I would conclude that the information in the tutorial DOES NOT WORK.

The association of .reg files to Notepad instead of regedit is intentional, and I know how to change the association, but I don't want to. There are at least 3 other ways to launch a .reg file, and (as I said in my last message) I chose the one where you run regedit then choose "Import" from...

Having never "merged" a .reg file, I wasn't aware of how it works. I didn't realize that if a key/value/datum doesn't exist in the registry, the .reg file adds it. If the key/value/datum does exist, it edits it. If I had known that I wouldn't have been searching all over the registry for...

I don't know how you ascertain if you're the "current user" or not. I'm the only one that has ever used this computer. I do know I have administration privileges (after fighting a scary renaming battle when I first got the new machine). Anyway, I DO NOT want that stupid icon on my desktop. I...

I'm running Windows 8.1 Classic Shell... The keys you listed for the registry edit aren't at the location you gave. I found them in two other places, listed here with their values and data: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\...

Grateful Beyond Words for User Account Control Solution I just spent almost 20 hours surfing all over the 'net trying the stupidest non-solutions to this problem. They all wanted me to do things that REQUIRE admin privileges to GET admin privileges. I was about to give up when I finally...