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Old 12-26-2007   #8 (permalink)
jojobear99


 
 

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

How would I do that? I already tried using the open with (and always use this
program) to change it back to using the windows app as the default open with
app, but that didn't *restore* the previous associations, it left it broken.

"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" wrote:
Quote:

> Well, I would just restore them back to there defaults then since the
> changes you made has some caused some problems.
> --
> 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:A00FFACF-DB4E-40CB-AF09-E9579C1108D5@xxxxxx
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> > 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
> >> >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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