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Icons for some kind of file are not correctly shown in the full view. In my case i have this problem with media file (mp3, avi, mpeg,...) all file initally associated to media player. But i don't like mplayer so i associated audio file to winamp and video to media player classic. In windows explorer all media files have the correct icon (size 16,32 and 48 pixels) anly TC shows no icon.
I also tryed rebuilding icon cache but it didn't help
Thanks
ps. i'm using an external ICL icon library for TC default icons (dir, zip, ...)
File icon not showing correctly
Moderators: Hacker, petermad, Stefan2, white
The problem is that there are different ways to assign applications, machine specific and user specific and there are different possibilities how they are extracted from the registry. Explorer prefers machine specific file icons, TC chooses user specific file extensions first and if you have assigned an application that is no longer available on your machine the machine specific extraction will fail because TC thinks that everything is ok.
To prevent strange things like that happen you should not use the extension configuration in the applications themselves but use "open with" windows function instead or Hacker's way.
An alternative way is to manually delete the user specific keys in registry that you want to reassign within the applications.
This can be done either in registry, for example when you have problems with .mp3 files you would delete either the entry "Application" in key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.mp3 or the whole key.
You can also fix it in Windows Explorer file type associations tab. Choose the problematic file extension and press the lower button "recover". This will delete the "Application" entry mentioned before, too. The button may be labelled differently, I have no english Windows version here.
Icfu
To prevent strange things like that happen you should not use the extension configuration in the applications themselves but use "open with" windows function instead or Hacker's way.
An alternative way is to manually delete the user specific keys in registry that you want to reassign within the applications.
This can be done either in registry, for example when you have problems with .mp3 files you would delete either the entry "Application" in key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.mp3 or the whole key.
You can also fix it in Windows Explorer file type associations tab. Choose the problematic file extension and press the lower button "recover". This will delete the "Application" entry mentioned before, too. The button may be labelled differently, I have no english Windows version here.
Icfu
Last edited by icfu on 2005-02-03, 16:55 UTC, edited 1 time in total.
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Well, although this is true most users don't NEED all file extensions.
The problem exists because some app developers are too ignorant to use the correct keys, that's true for MPC for example.
From ACDSee I know that you can choose "user specific" installation during the install and I recommend you to do so. If it assigns extensions systemwide ANYWAY the app is crap because it makes no sense to let the user decide to install it user specific and then set extensions for ALL users.
Just try it out, maybe ACDsee is an intelligent app, I doubt but you never know...
I am using MPC, too. Real and Quicktime stuff assigned directly in MPC, the rest manually by open with. As a pics viewer I am using IrfanView which adds user specific keys instead of machine specific keys so there is no need for manual editing.
In the end you have no problems at all if you don't switch apps permanently or move them to different locations without first uninstalling them.
Icfu
The problem exists because some app developers are too ignorant to use the correct keys, that's true for MPC for example.
From ACDSee I know that you can choose "user specific" installation during the install and I recommend you to do so. If it assigns extensions systemwide ANYWAY the app is crap because it makes no sense to let the user decide to install it user specific and then set extensions for ALL users.
Just try it out, maybe ACDsee is an intelligent app, I doubt but you never know...
I am using MPC, too. Real and Quicktime stuff assigned directly in MPC, the rest manually by open with. As a pics viewer I am using IrfanView which adds user specific keys instead of machine specific keys so there is no need for manual editing.
In the end you have no problems at all if you don't switch apps permanently or move them to different locations without first uninstalling them.
Icfu
Last edited by icfu on 2005-02-03, 17:09 UTC, edited 1 time in total.
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