Icon size not remembered

Hi

After getting the virus "Live Security Platinum" (that I've cleared) I have an unpleasant and quirk lingering effect.

The icon size is no more remembered and I have to manually change it (from medium to small) after every boot.

I know how to change the icon size, but I'd like to have my setting remembered and not having to re-adjust it every time.

I've tried messing with the registry, i.e. setting to 16 the value of this key

Code:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\Shell Icon Size

and the corresponding key associated with my account...
.. but with no effect.

I wouldn't want to make a Windows 7 repair, when probably the problem could be solved with some registry tweak. But where?

Any help?

Thanks

hypercube said:

I wouldn't want to make a Windows 7 repair, when probably the problem could be solved with some registry tweak. But where?

Is it the location you are searching for ?

Right click on the desktop > Personalize> Window Color > Advanced appearence settings > and then these three adjustments ...

In this case, you can create a new user account and see if that saves the icons settings or not. Most probably your current user account is damaged .

I would have tried something like these ....


About Downloads, you can copy it, or not, or may back the data of the folder up in another place.

Though, the best policy after having rid from a virus is to have either a Repair Install or a Clean Install Windows 7 ; after backing up all data externally.

Using a corrupted user profile may have a security lack .

I'VE FOUND THE CULPRIT!!! :)

It's

c:\Users\[myaccountname]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat

I've found it by selectively copying some "suspect" directories and their files from my corrupted user account directory (oldaccount) to the corresponding directory created for a new fresh account (newaccount). The latter was working ok just after being created from scrap.
At first I tried copying
c:\Users\[oldaccount]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\
to
c:\Users\[newaccount]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\

after that the icon size setting (and placement) were still ok in the newaccount... so the problem was not there.

Second trial was copying
c:\Users\[oldaccount]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
to
c:\Users\[newaccount]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows

After that, the newaccount presented too the "Icon size not remembered" problem! That meant I was very close to find out the rogue!

At last I found that the problem was with the single file

c:\Users\[accountname]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat

In conclusion the problem can be solved by following this simple procedure:

1) In the oldaccount create a fresh newaccount
2) log out from the oldaccount and log in to the newaccount.
3) navigate to c:\Users\[newaccount]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat (the good file)
4) Copy that file to c:\Users\[oldaccount]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat (before doing so it's advisable to rename and backup the file that will be overwritten)
5) log out from newaccount and log in to oldaccount. If the problem is solved you don't need to re-boot. Just set the preferred icons size and positions. To check again if your setting are remembered just log out and log in again to oldaccount and see if your setting are actually saved.
6) If everything's ok you can then delete the newaccount.

With these steps the problem with the "icon size setting not remembered" should be solved... at least it worked for me.
BTW, this procedure also solves the problem that the positions of the desktop icon were not remembered too.
Probably the virus "Live Security Platinum" made some nasty modification to the UsrClass.dat...

I hope this can be useful for other users

Congrats !!!

Yes, this will be very useful to a lot of users in future !