Hi Gang,
I used to be able to preview all my icons in Windows Explorer. However now all I see is the associated application's icon for the .ico extension as the image for each icon in explorer.

Here are my registry settings:

"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile]
@="Icon"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\DefaultIcon]
@="%1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell]
@="Open.VisualStudio.7.1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell\open\command]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Microangelo\\studio.exe %1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell\Open.VisualStudio.7.1]
@="Open with Visual Studio .NET 2003"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell\Open.VisualStudio.7.1\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\\Common7\\IDE\\devenv.exe\" /dde"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell\Open.VisualStudio.7.1\ddeexec]
@="Open(\"%1\")"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell\Open.VisualStudio.7.1\ddeexec\application]
@="VisualStudio.7.1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell\Open.VisualStudio.7.1\ddeexec\topic]
@="system"

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

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\OpenWithList]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\OpenWithList\devenv.exe]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\PersistentHandler]
@="{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"
"

. What I don't understand is why if the following registry key is there

"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\DefaultIcon]
@="%1" "

doesn't the icon's image appear any longer in my explorer views? %1 clearly refers to the icon itself. Here's what I'm now seeing inside of Explorer:


Thanks in Advance for any and all help regarding this matter,
Christian Blackburn

That is odd. Couldn't help noticing that you have Microangelo installed. Could it have changed (hijacked) the icons?

You can download the powertoy TweakUI and have it rebuild the icons.

That may help

Hi Sapiens74,
You da man! Not only did I already have TweakUI Installed, but your suggestion worked great.




PS: MicroAngelo has an option to install some program that'll animate your icons and what not, but I have always skipped that. There's nothing worse than animated icons when you're into performance and stability .

Thanks for the help,
Christian Blackburn