What did you change to show the icon, this is the tweak, I presume you know how to manually change that with regedit: HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu", "{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}",0x00010001,0 HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel", "{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}",0x00010001,0