Re: Icons and File Association in Windows Explorer

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Which view mode? If you can't see them in tiles,icons,list and
details, that leaves thumbnails and filmstrip in my view.

The Registry fix is only two keys combined but you may have something
wrong there.
Export those two keys using Regedit.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.ico
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\icofile

Go to each key using Regedit.
(Start-Run-Regedit)
Navigate down to that key.
Ensure the highlight is on the key in the left-hand pane.
Use the menu option Registry-Export and export that key to a Registry
file.

Open each file with Notepad.
Paste the contents of those two files here.
They should be a similar size to the ico.reg shown below.

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



On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:06:27 -0800, Anton Jansen <Anton
Jansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Alan, I have a similar problem. For years I have have a folder c:\icons
where I store all icon in case I want to use one. They always showed up in
the folder with their own picture. Now, in the view mode, I can only see what
the icon looks like. In the tiles,icons,list and details they show up as a
square with 4 small dots. I have tried your reistry program but am still
having a problem. Anton Jansen

"Alan Edwards" wrote:

To restore .ico association:
Make a file called ico.reg in Notepad from the lines below.
Right-click it and select Merge to restore the association.
Ensure the first line is REGEDIT4 and the last line is blank and that
your mail/newsreader does not add any spaces to the end of lines.

-----cut below here for ico.reg-----------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.ico]
@="icofile"
"Content Type"="image/x-icon"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\icofile]
@="Icon"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\icofile\DefaultIcon]
@="%1"

-----end file above here

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

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:41:06 +0000, Howard Neil
<hneil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I have a small but annoying problem with certain icons within Windows
Explorer.

With "details" view selected, the small icons at the start or the file
name are not displaying correctly for .ICO files. I have a folder where
I keep all my icon files and I used to be able to see the actual icon in
front of the file name. The files with a .exe extension display
correctly and I can see all the icons in the "thumbnails" view. All the
other views display a picture of six small blocks within a larger window
(resembles a browser).

The .ICO files used to display correctly. I then installed ACDSee and
this program decided to associate all .ICO files with itself. This
caused the .ICO files to display the ACDSee icon. I have disassociated
the .ICO files from ACDSee but those files now only display the picture
of six small blocks.

Can anyone tell me how to get the .ICO icon to display its own image,
please?

.



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