Icons and File Association in Windows Explorer

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?


--
Howard Neil

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
--
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?

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

--
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
> --
> 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?


--
Howard Neil