Why are my icons no longer previewing in Explorer?

[Christianb 8]

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:

Quote:

 

[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

Quote:

[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

[Sampson 0]

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

[sapiens74 0]

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

 

That may help

[Christianb 8]

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