A procedure for security (false?), I did changed my desktop icons for the default system icon

I have 64-bit Windows Vista Ultimate on a HP laptop.

I read a review (whose source I can't remember, but I think this is Microsoft) that there is a security hole in the desktop icons that would attack at a distance.  (Yes, I know.)  So he gave a procedure to remove the danger with editing the registry, with the warning that it would make the normal icons disappear and be replaced by the default system icon.

I performed the procedure and the icons have disappeared.  And I did not back up the registry first.  (Yes, I know.)

Now, I know I don't want to live with all the icons, the same.  I have read many procedures on Windows 7, etc., but none that hits home.  And try the remedies to these problems is no help either.  Can anyone help?  Thank you very much.

After three weeks of research, I posted the above message, then found the solution almost immediately after:

http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/233243-default-file-type-associations-restore.html

I have selected the "LNK" link and run the registry script it contains, and returned all the icons.  It is only the shortcuts that have been replaced.

(This time I saved the first restore point!)  Problem solved, in an orderly manner.  TX to all who examined him.

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