Corrupted recycle bin icon setting

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Roger

I have an nvidia display card, and followed the instructions for
disabling nvidia's display services. I still am having problems
with my recycle bin icon. The icon that the computer displays for
the bin is not correct. I have tried rebuilding the icon using
tweakui, but that does not accomplish anything. I can manually
reset the icon, but as soon as I reboot (or even log off and log
back on), the reset icon is lost. Am running xp pro, all updates
in place. Viral screen is clear. Any advice?
 
Hi Roger,

I have an nvidia display card, and followed the instructions for
disabling nvidia's display services. I still am having problems
with my recycle bin icon. The icon that the computer displays for
the bin is not correct. I have tried rebuilding the icon using
tweakui, but that does not accomplish anything. I can manually
reset the icon, but as soon as I reboot (or even log off and log
back on), the reset icon is lost. Am running xp pro, all updates
in place. Viral screen is clear. Any advice?
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Someone posted advice concerning this in this newsgroup a few days
ago, here it is: "Did some monitoring of the registry. I found that
when a scheduled task was run, winlogon.exe
(running as SYSTEM) was executing:

"CreateKey
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Clsid\"

and this was overwriting the info stored there with the info found
here:

"HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\"

The workaround is to modify the permissions for

"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Clsid"

so as to deny SYSTEM Set Value permissions. The nice part is, you
don't have to deny yourself any permissions and can customize the
icons & apply saved themes as normal."

I have done this with mixed results. I had changed the name of the
recycle bin and it got changed to the default :-/
However the icon I had assigned to the recycle bin has remained as I
put it :-)

Good luck
 
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