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I found a solution! =) The information on this page was great help. Large icons: Small icons: The difference is marked in bold (CODE tag and B tag dont mix? :/) After importing these keys, you have to login/logout or kill/restart the explorer.exe proccess. Bare in mind that importing these values will change many more settings, see the above url for details. Cheers!

Ok, i have tried this: a) I first made sure that i had small icons on the classic start menu. B) I exported these keys (and all sub values) from the registry: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\ShellBrowser] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams] c) I then disabled the small icons on the classic start menu by clicking: Toolbar->Properties->Start Menu->Classic start menu->Customize->"Show Small Icons in Start meun" (not checked) d) I once again exported the above keys from the registry. Attatched are the two exported key sets, one set for small icons, one for with large icons. If you do a file compare on these, you will see that they are identical, ie. no changes where made to them by toggling the small icon setting. Cheers! regfiles.rar

I allready have the classic start menu, the question was how to get small icons on the classic start menu by changing the registry? All values under the key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop] are unaffected by changing the "Show small icons in start menu" toggle. Thx anyways =)

First off, I have been searching the forums.. for months! This topic is about Classic Start Menu in Win XP, and how to get small icons by registry tweak. When changing the setting by clicking Toolbar->Properties->Start Menu->Classic start menu->Customize->Show Small Icons in Start meun, regmon shows the following: When switching on (to use small icons): 1) This key is first set: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "Start_LargeIcons"=dword:00000000 2) Then immediately gets deleted When switching off (to use large icons): 1) This key is first set: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "Start_LargeIcons"=dword:00000001 2) Then immediately gets deleted When I use similar registry monitoring apps, that takes snapshots, no change is noticed when switching this option, since the value is deleted after being altered. All topics previously found in the forums (by me) deals with small icons in lots of other places, like IE toolbar, Explorer toolbar, etc.. this is something else. I have a vague memory of reading about hex altering the data under: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\ShellBrowser] Someone must know this? =) Cheers!