7. Click OK and then close the Registry Editor. If the change doesn??™t take
effect immediately, restart Windows.
There??™s a quirk that prevents some Internet Shortcut icons
from working. The INI file format upon which .URL files are
based has a limit on the length of any line of text in the file.
If a URL is too long, it wraps around to the next line and disrupts
the icon (and of course, doesn??™t work as intended). To
fix an Internet Shortcut broken in this way, open it in Notepad
and shorten the URL. See ???Email Long URLs,??? later in
this chapter, for tips.
Now, if you actually turned to this page to change the default icon used for
all Internet Shortcuts, then follow these steps:
1. Open the Registry Editor (see Chapter 3).
2. Expand the branches to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\DefaultIcon.
3. This key is locked (as described in Chapter 3) by default, so before you
can make any changes, you??™ll need to unlock it. Right-click the
DefaultIcon key and select Permissions.
On the Permissions for DefaultIcon window, click Advanced, and then
choose the Owner tab. From the Change owner to list, select your username
(or select Administrators) and turn on the Replace owner on
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subcontainers and objects option. Click OK and then OK again to close
both windows.
Right-click the DefaultIcon key again and select Permissions. From the
Group or user names list, select your username (or, again, select
Administrators), place a checkmark in the Allow column next to Full
Control, and then click OK.
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