Retrieving Windows Vista Desktop IE7.0 Icon

In Windows Vista, I don't know what Microsoft thinks about, canceling the Internet Explorer icon that has been in the Windows desktop for a long time, which makes many users feel uncomfortable. Although we can create shortcuts to IE on the desktop, we can even make it look like the IE icon in the "traditional" Windows desktop by removing the arrows in the IE shortcut icon, but the lack of functionality can no longer be like Changing the IE settings via the right-click property of the IE icon is still inconvenient.

This article describes a trick on how to retrieve traditional IE icons in the Windows Vista desktop.

Retrieving the IE7 icon for the Windows Vista desktop

Open the Registry Editor: This can be done by typing "regedit.exe" in the search box of the Start menu or by pressing the Win key +R at the same time. Enter "regedit.exe" in the run box.

If UAC is not closed, Windows Vista will pop up a prompt window when you run the Registry Editor, click OK.

Locate the following registry branch:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion \\Explorer \\HideDesktopIcons \\NewStartPanel

Note: When Windows Vista uses classic themes, Then it should be:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion \\Explorer \\HideDesktopIcons \\ClassicStartMenu

If the corresponding branch does not exist, create it;

Create a name DWORD (32-bit) registry entry for {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}";

Set its value to "0";

After refreshing the desktop, you can see The disappearing IE7 icon reappears, right click to see the relevant Internet browsing settings.

Users who are not familiar with the registry operation can also directly download the registry modification file provided by Vista World. After decompression, double-click to run.