Dennis wrote:

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:39:26 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
opined:

On 2/18/2014, Dennis posted:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:48:03 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
opined:

On 2/18/2014, Dennis posted:
OK. It seems to have worked. Now why would the .bat file work
when manually deleting the keys from the registry did not?

When doing it manually, did you kill Explorer before and
restart it after?

No. Apparently that makes a difference? Why?

Is it not obvious?

Conflict...

Reread the website that Ron pointed you to. His manual
instructions duplicate the bat file's actions.

Ron pointed me to...

http://www.7tutorials.com/how-clean-...rea-icon-cache

... but I didn't see any "manual instructions". Maybe I'm going
blind, but could you please point me to the place on the page
where you see this?

The first paragraph. The instructions are abbreviated.

Well, I still don't understand why it doesn't work the other way. You
mention a "conflict", but I didn't see that word anywhere on that web
page. I guess I'll just have to settle for it working ... without a
clear explanation of why a reboot after the regedit doesn't behave the
same way.

Thanks all for your help.

The tutorial referenced has the following line;

"a simple trick is to remove two registry values and then 'restart' the
explorer.exe process"

The implied step is to "Terminate explorer.exe" before doing the
regedit. Not as clear as it could be I'll admit.

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Sir_George