WDGC Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 . Somehow the normal yellow folder tray icon has been replaced by the blue 'monitor' shown here:The correct yellow one is still used in My Computer folders, as I've also shown in that same shot. -- Terry, West Sussex, UK<{POST_SNAPBACK}> About 2 1/2 months ago I had the selfsame problem. I've never used RegSupreme, and as mentioned previously have used RegSeeker a number of times over the past 2 years, but have only had this problem the once. Unfortunately I can't offer a solution as I was so irritated by this behaviour I soon reinstalled the OS from an image made a couple of days prior. At times such as this I'm glad I make OS images at least weekly. However, I did post the problem to a number of fora, but didn't save the responses.Over the weekend I should have time to search these fora and will post here anything I find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Zugec Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 2Terrypin: You must run it from cmd using command cscript //nologo RegSize.vbs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypin Posted May 12, 2005 Author Share Posted May 12, 2005 WDGC: Thanks, very interesting. Downloading Dureg now.-- Terry, West Sussex, UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypin Posted May 12, 2005 Author Share Posted May 12, 2005 2Terrypin: You must run it from cmd using command cscript //nologo RegSize.vbs<{POST_SNAPBACK}>OK, thanks. Did that, from the folder in which I'd placed the VBS file, but I just got:D:\Docs\Windows Xp>cscript //nologo RegSize.vbs==========================================Computer: .==========================================D:\Docs\Windows Xp> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypin Posted May 12, 2005 Author Share Posted May 12, 2005 About 2 1/2 months ago I had the selfsame problem. I've never used RegSupreme, and as mentioned previously have used RegSeeker a number of times over the past 2 years, but have only had this problem the once. Unfortunately I can't offer a solution as I was so irritated by this behaviour I soon reinstalled the OS from an image made a couple of days prior. At times such as this I'm glad I make OS images at least weekly. However, I did post the problem to a number of fora, but didn't save the responses.Over the weekend I should have time to search these fora and will post here anything I find out.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Thanks, I'd appreciate it.-- Terry, West Sussex, UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypin Posted May 12, 2005 Author Share Posted May 12, 2005 4. This reply gave a method of using REGEDIT which gives significantly different sizes to those I had previously obtained [5 Hives Total 28576 KB compared with 63301 KB previous] and a link to "Dureg.exe - Registry Size Estimator". Here is a link to the forum :http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=13575&sid...88c005af0932316 _ _<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I ran Dureg and got this outputD:\Program Files\Resource Kit>dureg /aSize of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT : 13651571Size of HKEY_USERS : 15707395Size of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE : 34282119Total Registry data size: 63641085i.e about 62149 KBNot much different to last report from NTRegOpt of about 55800 KBBut did you say you got the sum of FIVE hives?-- Terry, West Sussex, UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WDGC Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 4. This reply gave a method of using REGEDIT which gives significantly different sizes to those I had previously obtained [5 Hives Total 28576 KB compared with 63301 KB previous] _ _<{POST_SNAPBACK}>But did you say you got the sum of FIVE hives?-- Terry, West Sussex, UK<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Using REGEDIT "export to Win9x/NT reg format (choose this from the save as drop down box)." See AumHa post. I haven't used DuReg yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypin Posted May 13, 2005 Author Share Posted May 13, 2005 [snip] However, I did post the problem to a number of fora, but didn't save the responses.Over the weekend I should have time to search these fora and will post here anything I find out.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Sorted thanks, hopefully before you go to any trouble digging around.I had a response in microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize which happily got it fixed this morning. I'll paste it below for the curious and those perhaps ending up here on a google search over a similar problem:-------Open Regedit.exe and navigate to:HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\explorer.exeIn the right-pane, create a new REG_EXPAND_SZ value named "TaskbarGroupIcon"Double-click "TaskbarGroupIcon" and set it's value as follows: %SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe,13Disable Taskbar buttons grouping and enable the option back.-------In my case I hit the immediate obstacle that I had no key calledHKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\explorer.exeBut I nervously created one first and then proceeded with the rest. Voilà - my yellow icon back again! And that's survived a reboot, so I feel reasonably confident it's sorted.I'm not absolutely certain, but I think that key was one of the many that RegSeeker found. There were scores described as 'redundant' or 'obsolete' or words to that effect. I deleted all 5000 plus entries it recommended. There's bravado for you So maybe I will be encountering a few more quirks!BTW, deleting those 5000 reduced registry sizes by only 1-2%.-- Terry, West Sussex, UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WDGC Posted May 14, 2005 Share Posted May 14, 2005 Sorted ... -------I'm not absolutely certain, but I think that key was one of the many that RegSeeker found. There were scores described as 'redundant' or 'obsolete' or words to that effect. I deleted all 5000 plus entries it recommended. There's bravado for you So maybe I will be encountering a few more quirks!BTW, deleting those 5000 reduced registry sizes by only 1-2%.-- Terry, West Sussex, UK<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Glad to hear the problem seems to have been fixed relatively easily. Upon consulting my records, and in light of your findings, I now think it almost certain the key was a RegSeeker deletion - I first noticed the wrong icon not long after making deletions with RegSeeker, but inexplicably didn't make the connection. Coincidentally, there is a new version - RegSeeker 1.45 beta - available.http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2579.htmlandhttp://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm At majorgeeks the download is regseeker.zip and at hoverdesk the download is RegSeeker.zip and is from the old 1.35 beta download link. However, after downloading and extracting each, I can say they appear to be identical. Only a 1-2% reduction after 5000 deletions shows just how many entries are in the registry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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