Thank you very much. That has worked perfectly. I am very grateful

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Regards

Howard Neil


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\Defaul tIcon]
> @="%1"
>
> -----end file above here
>
> ...Alan
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> 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@REMOVETOREPLY.co.uk> 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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Howard Neil