re: Icon Associations in General
Friday, May 14, 2004 at 11:56 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Homer
(2 messages posted)
Just to clear things up, this procedure, convoluted as it is, changes the icon for
a given extension. To have a different icon for the same extension you have to use
a dedicated program (I don't think the registry is capable of this). Say you had
a collection of mp3s and you wanted to categorize them eg jazz, classical etc. and
be able to know by the icon what type of song it was. To do this the only way I know
is to use a program such as IconChanger from ShellLabs. I hate to use third-party
(pay) programs to accomplish simple tasks (Windows should have this built in) such
as this but that's the way it is I guess. Hope this helps.
On Friday, May 14, 2004 at 10:58 am, Homer wrote:
>Go to Folder Options. Then File Types. Select New. Type the extension you want to
>register. Click okay. Then back on File Types click Change to register your extension
>with your program. Open regedit Root. Look for your new extension and modify its
>value to your program's name eg WinRAR (without .exe). Find your program in the
list
>and change it's default icon. It can be any icon in any folder, not just the one
>in the exe. Close regedit. Go back to Folder Options, File Types. Click on your
extension
>and hit the restore button.
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