Unable to change icon of archives

osmose · Post by *osmose » 2010-12-04, 22:42 UTC

[Associations]
Filter1=*.zip
Filter1.icon=%COMMANDER_PATH%\ICONS\zip.ico

This entry in configuration file is ignored.

Balderstrom · Post by *Balderstrom » 2010-12-05, 00:15 UTC

Search: icons archive wrote:No override for default TC icons in Internal associations
(English) How can i change TC's default archive file icon to Winrar's
(English) Change the Packer icon to use what Windows Explorer uses?
remove archive icons

Among others. It is a longstanding wish of many, but so far (many years now) has been a Behaviour which will not be changed.

osmose · Post by *osmose » 2010-12-07, 21:18 UTC

Thanks. I used "IconLib=" and custom set of icons.

osmose · Post by *osmose » 2010-12-20, 21:58 UTC

Why this trick (IconLib) doesn't work on windows 7?

Balderstrom · Post by *Balderstrom » 2010-12-21, 02:34 UTC

Win7 needs a valid 32bit icon archive. You need to use a tool that will create a valid 32bit icon archive.
Green Fish Icon Editor GFIE, and there are a few others that are freeware.

Note, that doesn't mean the icons need to be 32bit. They can be greyscale, 2 bit color, 8, etc. Just the icon.icl file itself needs to be 32bit, not 16.