PDF files have no icons (in File Explorer do)

The behaviour described in the bug report is either by design, or would be far too complex/time-consuming to be changed

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PDF files have no icons (in File Explorer do)

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I guess TC take icons from different location. After last Acrobar Reader update (21.7.20099.454979) seems there were some changes to registry.

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Please run my registry info tool from here:
https://www.totalcommander.ch/win/tools/registryinfo.zip

Enter the file extension which doesn't have an icon (in your case, pdf ).
Then please paste the results here in the forum.
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Hi! I have the same problem. Ran the RegistryInfo tool, but couldn't paste the results - error message "Your message contains the following unsupported characters: " Attaching image file URL instead https://sites.google.com/view/pdficonissues/home
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Unfortunately the image was cut on the left, so I cannot read all the paths. But it looks like the DefaultIcon value points to a strange path not in the file system.
Could you copy and paste just the value below the DefaultIcon entry in the last section (below the last ============ line)?
It ends with MicrosoftEdgePDF.png
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I do not understand what your problem is. Perhaps you could not set a normal association, or your OS was just killed.
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Here is the icon TC should be using:
C:\WINDOWS\Installer\{AC76BA86-1033-1033-7760-BC15014EA700}\_PDFFile.ico
Can you go to C:\WINDOWS\Installer\{AC76BA86-1033-1033-7760-BC15014EA700}
and check whether the file _PDFFile.ico exists or not?
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Icon is there and also appears in TC. Likely some consequent update of Acrobat Reader fixed that.
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