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[CitizenBleys]

I went into Folder Options in Explorer and changed my AVI file type options so that it would open with the DivX Player instead of Windows Media Player, and it changed the icon for AVIs to a butt-ugly picture of a video camera...problem is, Folder Options will only let me change the program that opens the file. It won't change the icon.

What do I have to do to install a non-ugly icon?

 

[linney]

Folder Options/ File Types/ AVI/ Advanced/ Change Icon

If there is nothing there you like try browsing to any folder with icons in it.

for example


%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
%SystemRoot%\system32\Progman.exe
%SystemRoot%\system32\Pifmgr.dll
%SystemRoot%\system32\Inetcpl.cpl

Or try any of the other locations listed here.

http://www.mvps.org/serenitymacros/iconlist.html

Or do a Google search for icons.

 

[CitizenBleys]

The Change Icon button isn't there; I remember that from Windows 98.

I just said to hell with it and manually edited the registry entry. Media Player still occasionally reasserts itself as the default application for AVIs, but at least now when I remove WMP, it defaults back to the correct (DivX Player) icon and application without further registry editing.