One freaking thing which I really don't understand is that the IE7 Icon is defaulty disabled on the Vista desktop. Ok we can understand that MS wants us to start with a very clean system, so no desktop icons except for the recycle bin which you probably don't need for another week or two
Well what's more concerning is that you can't also set the Vista IE7 icon to appear on the desktop because MS removed it from the desktop icons settings. Really strange, but it possible to enable it quite simple...
For users with Longhorn start menu view:
1) Go to the registry editor and browse to the following reg key:[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
2) Add a DWORD 32 bit String value named
{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} with a value of 0 (dword:00000000)
After a refresh on the desktop (F5) you should see your long awaited Vista IE7 Icon back
For users with classic start menu view:
1) Go to the registry editor and browse to the following reg key:[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu]
2) Add a DWORD 32 bit String value named
{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} with a value of 0 (dword:00000000)
After a refresh on the desktop (F5) you should see your long awaited Vista IE7 Icon back
Note:
String value named {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} maybe already exists on target locations.
In this case you only need to change value from 1 to 0.
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