Re: Icons not displaying correctly

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On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 21:44:19 -0500, "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE"
<franksaunders@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" <franksaunders@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Wimpie van Lingen" <van_diesel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> All my files with a .ico or .cur extention displays wrong. Some
>>> program has associated itself with those two file types, and now that
>>> program's icon display instead of the icon self.
>>> I removed the association, but now Windows just displays the default
>>> icon used for unknown file types.
>>>
>>> Any ideas how I can get icons to display as icons again?
>>
>> I'll tell you what I would do, but you might wand to wait 24 hours for
>> someone to tell me I'm all wrong.
>>
>> Open Windows Explorer and click Tools | Folder Options | File Types.
>> For both ICO and CUR click Advanced and remove all actions.
>
>Do it Alan's way.

Thanks Frank.
No need to wait 24 hours now <g>

....Alan
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Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.org/index.html
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