* This guide is tested on Windows XP Pro SP2

After installing/updating Internet Explorer 7, my internet shortcut icon (*.url) is not displayed properly under Start menu and other IE based browser like Maxthon. This example from start menu :



The problem is when the shortcut is not pointed to the right library. You can check this by right click > properties > change icon. This is shortcut which has the icon problem :



This is the shortcut which display the IE icon :



Did you notice it. There is 2 different shortcut :

• %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll <- problem with the icon
• C:\WINDOWS\system32\url.dll <- icon properly displayed

Now you should get the idea how to fix it. Right Click > Properties > Change Icon. Replace %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll with C:\WINDOWS\system32\url.dll (both apply to Start menu & Favourites).

Walla ! Icon fixed ...



NOTES/UPDATES:

• Using Tweak UI to rebuild the icon won't work since very obvious the problem lies with wrong path to the icon library.
• It seems work with Start menu only (read next info).
• It seems this trick won't work for Maxthon . Ironically, Maxthon use "Favourites" from IE too but IE 7 has no problem to display the icon properly.

This post has been edited by keyz: Nov 17 2006, 09:06 PM