Icon Display in Windows Vista Help & Support

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The icon boxes next to the topic contain an "X" and the Help Title but no icon.
Can anybody suggest how to display the icon?

Thanks.
 
Osterley50 said:
The icon boxes next to the topic contain an "X" and the Help Title but no
icon. Can anybody suggest how to display the icon?
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I gather this is a problem in Help & Support and not somewhere else.

Icons in Help are missing - This happens if the "Content Type" setting
for .PNG file types is broken. Download a REG file from Daniel Martin's
site here:

http://winvista.mvps.org/Ficheros/PNG.reg - Download and save it to Desktop.
Right-click on the file and choose Merge. The manual fix:

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.

If my Crystal Ball(tm) was cloudy, please post back with more details per:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 - How to Ask a Question

Malke
 
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