Windows 7 Taskbar Icons

[disco_samurai]

Afternoon all

 

Does anyone have a simple way of controlling which icons appear on the Taskbar on Windows 7?

 

I know they appear in C:\Users\%Username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\ once you have set them but you can't just add these to the Default user directory to copy into new profiles.

 

I want to replace the IE and Media Player icons with others of more use, I've found a few threads on the net like this Add Quick Launch / Desktop Icon locations to Default User profile through registry changes

 

Which give this as the instructions

reg load HKU\ntuser.dat c:\users\default\ntuser.dat

reg import taskband.reg

reg unload HKU\ntuser.dat

 

rem (Microsoft Word.lnk, Mozilla Firefox.lnk)

copy /y *.lnk "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\"

 

taskband.reg looks something like this (I shortened the 1st 2):

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 

[HKEY_USERS\ntuser.dat\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband]

"FavoritesResolve"=hex:d2,02,00,00,4c,00,00,00,01,14,02,00,00,00,00,00,c0,00,...

"Favorites"=hex:00,7c,01,00,00,14,00,1f,80,c8,27,34,1f,10,5c,10,42,aa,03,2e,e4,...

"FavoritesChanges"=dword:00000009

"FavoritesVersion"=dword:00000002

"FavoritesRemovedChanges"=dword:0000004b

 

But I've not done much fiddling with the registry so I'm getting a bit lost! Any help (in slightly plainer English) would be very appreciated!

 

Neal