Re: help icons disappeared

On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:46:06 -0500, lid wrote:

>In addition to needing help, it's the 'help & support icons' that disappeared.
>I have no idea how to restore them. The icons are huge numbers with no
>extensions.
>
>I hit help, I get the help pages, but all the icons on all the pages are red
>x'd..

[snip]

>I googled 'help icons disappeared' and stuff came up but nothing re: the help
>icons.

Shoulda Googled "help and support icons missing vista"

First hit:

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-genera...ort-pages.html

1. Close the Help and Support window.
2. Start the Registry Editor by clicking Start, typing "regedit" (no
quotation marks), and pressing ENTER. (You need administrator
privileges to do this.)

3. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.png.

4. Right-click the .png folder, point to New, and then click String
value.

5. Add a new string named "Content Type" (without quotation marks).

6. Double-click the new Content Type string and set the Value data to
"image/png" (without quotation marks).

7. Close the Registry Editor, and then open Help and Support.