Change Ugly adobe file icon

I recently uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe Reader (32-bit Windows 7 on HP desktop).  For some reason, I now have a different icon next to my .pdf files.
I no longer have either:
1.  the red icon with the curly white triangle, nor
2.  the white icon with the the curly red triangle, the red bar on top with PDF, and Adobe at the bottom.
(Sorry, I don't seem to be able to post htese icons.)
The icon is now an ugly white rectangle, that has in the middle a tiny red version of icon 1 above.
I can find the icons 1 and 2 in a .dll file at C:\Program Files\Adobe, but I can't even find the current icon in any .exe or .dll file.
I have tried various ways to get the original icon back, but without success.  Does anyone know how to do it?
Interestingly, I did exactly the same uninstall-reinstall on my laptop (also with 32-bit Windows 7), and I now have icon 2.  What's going on?

Some further details about my attempts to change the icon.
1.   Using Directory Opus, I can change other file icons on my system.  This  process does not change the file associations, only the icon.  I can,  for example, even download an icon from the web and change a file icon to the  downloaded icon (without changing the file association).
This  process, however, does not work with Adobe Reader 9.3.  With this  programme, everything seems to work exactly the same during the change  process, but the file icon does not change.  Even when I reboot, no  change occurs.
2.  I went on the web and found clear instructions about how to change the file icons in Windows 7 at
* http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/change-file-type-icon-windows-7-and-vista/
I went through their steps, as administrator, and navigated to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.pdf\UserCho ice
The (Default) reads (value not set)
I entered the following value there:
* C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe,0
which was the same value as at the other place they mentioned:
* HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PDFPlusReader.Document\DefaultIcon
But I can't do this.  I keep getting an error message:
Error Editing Value
Cannot edit :  Error writing the value's new contents.
CONCLUSION:  It does seem that Adobe is somehow protecting the Registry.  Please, Adobe techies, how do I do this?

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