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Old 12-26-2007   #3 (permalink)
Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]


 
 

Re: How do I restore Icons to display as icons rather than thumbnails?

In the explorer shell, there is a command on the command bar called 'Views'
click it or click the pop out arrow beside and move the slider until the
desired effect appears.
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"jojobear99" <jojobear99@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have an unusual problem. I was working on making some ugly filetype icons
> prettier, and I changed the default editor for .ico (icon) files by right
> clicking on a file and selecting an icon editor application, as the
> default
> viewer can't even display vista icons (somehow ironic!). That worked okay
> except it caused an odd side effect--now icons appear in windows explorer
> in
> thumbnail view (just like if they were a jpg or png) on a random view from
> the icon rather than displaying the best sized icon view. This means at
> "small icons" it doesn't even show the icon's image, just a generic file
> icon. Eeek, maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all! But now I can't
> figure out how to restore icons to displaying in their native view in
> explorer! Any help on how to undo this would be much appreciated!

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