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Although Delphi’s StretchDraw() function should work for icons it doesn’t The way to get round this is to use the Windows API DrawIconEx() function.

(* iNewWidth - (Integer) New icon width
** iNewHeight - (Integer) New icon height
*)
DrawIconEx(Canvas.Handle, 0, 0, Icon.Handle, iNewWidth, iNewHeight, 0, 0, DI_NORMAL);

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You may, for some reasons not want to use Delphi’s TRegistry component but still want to use the system’s Registry. This may come in handy when creating applications for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista. Delphi’s TRegistry component will raise an error when attempting to write a string value to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key. Well, the way to get over [...]

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