Early last year I posted an article about changing icons and file associations in Vista. The bad news is that nothing seems to have changed natively in this regard for Vista. Perhaps things will be different in Window7… who knows.
The good news though is that I have since found a much nicer program for assigning your own icons:
Types
“Types” is a free and lightweight utility for Windows that allows you to edit program associations, icons, context menus and other properties of various file types displayed in Explorer.
When I first tried it out way back in the beginning of last year I had a few difficulties but when I recently setup a new development VM and had a need once again to customize my clarion file associations I gave it another go. This time round they have made great improvements in stability and it performed beautifully and did what it said it would. No more, no less.
Hopefully someone will find this useful too.
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Kai
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I’m trying to change the icon of .rar files, but somehow I don’t get it to work. Do you have some usefull tips for me, please. I went to the icon tab in the properties chosed the icon file I want, and then? If I just exit like this nothing happens and the changes I made are not saved.
Thanx
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brahn
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Hi,
The Types program can be a little unintuitive to use but it was the only thing I could find at the time. In my experience what you are doing is correct but you could try the forum for Types at sourceforge, they might be able to help out.
I have since see another program called Default Programs Editor which looks really good although I haven’t actually tried it yet. Maybe give that a go and see if it is any better!
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Kai
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Thanx for the quick answer.
Default Programs Editor works just fine, at least for icon changes. haven’t tried the other functions. It’s way easier to understand than Types.
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