I have a question about Customize Drive Icons:

I see a lot of posts about changing the drives icons but what about changing the icons for any extension? I would like to be able to custom define my icons and choose them from the registered association. Is there a way to do this? Reason being I would like to give diferent Icons to my .c and .h source files etc. I know I would have to use the same icon for any files of the same extention but when I try to change them I cannot use double-click to open with anymore. And when I revert them to their origonal icons they are all the same. Even the same as all my palm files. IMHO I should be able to have a different icon for .c, .h, .pc, .pdb, .prc etc... Can anyone help me with this? Mark

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TOOLS / FOLDER OPTIONS / FILE TYPES you can change the icon for each file type - but be careful NOT to change the associated program... that is what you did the first time you tried...


On Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at 1:16 pm, Mark wrote:
>I have a question about Customize
>Drive Icons:

>
>
>I see a lot of posts about changing the drives icons but what about changing the
>icons for any extension? I would like to be able to custom define my icons and choose
>them from the registered association. Is there a way to do this? Reason being I
>would like to give diferent Icons to my .c and .h source files etc. I know I would
>have to use the same icon for any files of the same extention but when I try to change
>them I cannot use double-click to open with anymore. And when I revert them to their
>origonal icons they are all the same. Even the same as all my palm files. IMHO
>I should be able to have a different icon for .c, .h, .pc, .pdb, .prc etc... Can
>anyone help me with this?
>
>
>Mark

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But that will not work. I tried that. This is what happens. Origonally there was no association for file type .c in the registered list. They WERE recognized by Pocket C and would open the Pocket C editor when double clicked on though. I used icon filter to pull an icon out of Pocket C. I saved it to its own file. Then I went to Tools/Folder Options and created an association for a .c file. I chose the icon and tried to associate it with Pocket C. But it does not work that way. The icons all change but don't open Pocket C. If I choose to open it with Pocket C the icons change back to their origonal and open the editor. Hmmmm..


On Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at 11:36 pm, Jeff wrote:
>TOOLS / FOLDER OPTIONS / FILE TYPES
>
>you can change the icon for each file type - but be careful NOT to change the associated
>program... that is what you did the first time you tried...
>
>

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I encountered this exact same problem when I "upgraded" from Win 2K to Win XP. After installing Visual Interdev, it became the default application for .asp pages. I changed the file association to open .asp pages with my text editor, but when I changed the icon, windows "reset" the file association to the "default" of Visual Interdev. I was forced to choose between using the application I wanted and using the icon I wanted. This certainly is not consistent with how any prior version of windows behaved and I think it is a bug which MS needs to address.


On Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 5:11 am, Mark wrote:
>But that will not work. I tried that. This is what happens. Origonally there was
>no association for file type .c in the registered list. They WERE recognized by
>Pocket C and would open the Pocket C editor when double clicked on though. I used
>icon filter to pull an icon out of Pocket C. I saved it to its own file. Then I
>went to Tools/Folder Options and created an association for a .c file. I chose the
>icon and tried to associate it with Pocket C. But it does not work that way. The
>icons all change but don't open Pocket C. If I choose to open it with Pocket C the
>icons change back to their origonal and open the editor. Hmmmm..
>
>

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This won't work for all file extensions. The ones that Windows comes pre-set with do not give you the option to change the icon - only to reset the association to the Windows default. eg. .mpg comes associated with Windows Media Player. I associated .mpg with another player and now I get the default icon you see when there is no association to a file. When I try to change the icon the only option I have is Reset.


On Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at 11:36 pm, Jeff wrote:
>TOOLS / FOLDER OPTIONS / FILE TYPES
>
>you can change the icon for each file type - but be careful NOT to change the associated
>program... that is what you did the first time you tried...
>
>

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just change it in the registry :) look for the file (f.i. Winzip) under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and change the DefaultIcon key hope this helps S

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Change it to what? Sure I gotta put in the exe (and its path) of where the icon lives but veery other "DefaultIcon" key seems to follow this also with a comma and an integer value. Does anyone know what this integer value about and how I can figure the right integer for the icon?


On Saturday, September 27, 2003 at 1:06 pm, sloeren wrote:
>just change it in the registry :)
>look for the file (f.i. Winzip) under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and change the DefaultIcon
>key

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http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-031
"where filename is the name of the file containing the icon (either an ICO, DLL, or EXE file), and number is the index of the icon to use"



On Tuesday, February 17, 2004 at 7:51 pm, sqgl wrote:
>Change it to what?
>Sure I gotta put in the exe (and its path) of where
>the icon lives but veery other "DefaultIcon" key
>seems to follow this also with a comma and an integer value. Does anyone know what
>this integer value about and how I can figure the right integer for the icon?
>

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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.


On Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at 1:16 pm, Mark wrote:
>I have a question about Customize
>Drive Icons:

>
>
>I see a lot of posts about changing the drives icons but what about changing the
>icons for any extension? I would like to be able to custom define my icons and choose
>them from the registered association. Is there a way to do this? Reason being I
>would like to give diferent Icons to my .c and .h source files etc. I know I would
>have to use the same icon for any files of the same extention but when I try to change
>them I cannot use double-click to open with anymore. And when I revert them to their
>origonal icons they are all the same. Even the same as all my palm files. IMHO
>I should be able to have a different icon for .c, .h, .pc, .pdb, .prc etc... Can
>anyone help me with this?
>
>
>Mark

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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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