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Old 12-26-2007   #7 (permalink)
Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]


 
 

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

Well, I would just restore them back to there defaults then since the
changes you made has some caused some problems.
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Andre
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"jojobear99" <jojobear99@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

> No matter where I put the slider files of type *.ico do not do the right
> thing...they appear to be associated somehow to the image handler rather
> than
> the icon handler. Other file types there is no problem, the problem is
> specific to this file extension/file type.
>
> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" wrote:
>
Quote:

>> 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.
>> --
>> Andre
>> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
>> "jojobear99" <jojobear99@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:01AE93BC-DDF3-4E58-A54A-623FB448B2F6@xxxxxx
Quote:

>> >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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