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Thanks heaps Brink. Yip that's exactly what I'm going to do. It'll just eliminate any possibility of further problems. I'm backing stuff up right now. Thanks for all your help. Windows 7 Forums ROCKS !!!!

Well the recovery went well. Wow6432 back in registry. Everything seems to be going fine now. I have noticed a couple of small things though.

In Explorer on the button toolbar next to the Organize button is what I guess is an 'Action' button and it displays an icon depending on what filetype is selected. I'm not sure if this was happening before the recovery but when I select an EXE file the icon isn't displayed.



I also noticed a couple of program shortcut icons in the start menu weren't displaying either. You can see the NTI icon displays correctly. Norton doesn't. McAfee was the other one that didn't display correctly but I changed it. But I couldn't change it via right-click / properties. I had to go the program folder and create a new shortcut.

Thanks yet again Brink, Would be nice if it showed the application icon but it's definitely better than before. I was wondering if it might have been something I just hadn't noticed. Glad to know it's a bug and not my computer.

Hate to poor water on the flames but this tutorial just does not work for me and I suspect for others as well.

I have Win 7 x64 and have tried 3 variations of the tutorial:
1/ as written
2/ just the 32 bit section
3/ just the 64 bit section

and none work, in addition the registry location given for the 64 bit change appears to be incorrect. I installed the system yesterday so there is no registry corruption or whatever, this is what I believe the 64bit registry entry you are referring to is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}\ShellFolder

In the mean time anyone else reading this tutorial please be aware of my results.

Thank you for your reply Brink,

sorry I was not clear in my first post, the link I gave I substituted for the link in the tutorial as it was obviously the key that was being referred to, so to answer your question, no it did not work.

If I understand you correctly then both 64bit registry key paths should work, assuming this is so, can the path I provided be included in the tutorial? After having read your Microsoft link I do not understand why that key path is not in my registry as it essentially a mirror. Do you think it may be because I only have the Home Premium version?

I will have another go at the tutorial some time in the next few days and report back.