Any way to change file type icon without chaning program association?

malcolm · Jan 2010

Yo, I'd like to change all my .psd files to display the blue photoshop .psd icon but when I double click them I want them to open in irfanview. Anyone know how to do this?

MoP · Jan 2010

In what specialists are calling a "dick move", it looks like Microsoft removed that functionality in Vista and Windows 7.

Here's what Google gave me - registry editing in Windows 7!
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/change-file-type-icon-windows-7-and-vista/

malcolm · Jan 2010

Yeah that's all I found too, don't want to mess around with the registry at work might incur the rath of the it guy if I fuck something up.

malcolm · Jan 2010

Hey MoP, figured it out. You have two options. The easiest one if you want irfanview to open all your image formats by default is go to file associations and in irfanview and turn on icons then choose the icons plugin. All your image icons will be displayed in different shades of green still a bit hard to see the difference.

The other option is to install Creative Element Power Tools which lets you change the icon to whatever you want, if I could find the system icons for tga psd and dds it would be easy to create 3 custom icons and assign them to the file formats eventhough irfanview is the default program they open in.

MoP · Jan 2010

Thanks for the info!

achillesian · Jan 2010

malcolm wrote: »

might incur the rath of the it guy

*jingle plays*
Nick Burns, your company's computer guy!

glib · Jan 2010

I'd say the hidden third option is to switch to an image viewer that has clear and consistent image icons, like xnview.

Any way to change file type icon without chaning program association?

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