Changing or assigning icons

11 Feb 2005 4:15 PM

Richard

I have an interesting problem...

The icon that is now assigned to my .jpg / .jpeg files is a picture of a
piece of paper with the word "Doc" at the top.

How can I change this to reflect the program (MS Photo Editor) that opens
these file types???

Thanks in advance for any help!

Regards,

11 Feb 2005 5:18 PM

Ramesh, MS-MVP

Hi Richard,

You should be able to change the default icon for JPG files via Folder
Options, File Types dialog, Advanced button. Or, using a direct registry
edit:

[HKEY CLASSES ROOT\jpegfile\DefaultIcon]

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org

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"Richard" <Rich***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0D44B78F-942C-4755-A67E-B9AA3E9357E5@microsoft.com...
>I have an interesting problem...
>
> The icon that is now assigned to my .jpg / .jpeg files is a picture of a
> piece of paper with the word "Doc" at the top.
>
> How can I change this to reflect the program (MS Photo Editor) that opens
> these file types???
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> Regards,
>
>

11 Feb 2005 6:51 PM

Richard

Thanks Ramesh...

I've have of course, tried the first option... I'm not sure on the second, I
do that thru regedit?

Please confirm and where exactly do I find regedit in XP Pro?

Thanks again!

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"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> You should be able to change the default icon for JPG files via Folder
> Options, File Types dialog, Advanced button. Or, using a direct registry
> edit:
>
> [HKEY CLASSES ROOT\jpegfile\DefaultIcon]
>
> --
> Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP Shell/User
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org
>
>
> "Richard" <Rich***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0D44B78F-942C-4755-A67E-B9AA3E9357E5@microsoft.com...
> >I have an interesting problem...
> >
> > The icon that is now assigned to my .jpg / .jpeg files is a picture of a
> > piece of paper with the word "Doc" at the top.
> >
> > How can I change this to reflect the program (MS Photo Editor) that opens
> > these file types???
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
>
>

11 Feb 2005 7:29 PM

Richard

Hey hey...

IT WORKED!!

The regedit fix worked... it did require a reboot to swap out the icons but
no problem after that!

Thanks very much!

12 Feb 2005 4:36 AM

Ramesh, MS-MVP

Thanks for the feedback Richard.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org

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"Richard" <Rich***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0016B98B-77E8-485E-A2AF-CCD397F35CF6@microsoft.com...
>
> Hey hey...
>
> IT WORKED!!
>
> The regedit fix worked... it did require a reboot to swap out the icons
> but
> no problem after that!
>
> Thanks very much!
>
>