I am using some Excel files with a .dif extension, and when I switched to a
new computer (still using Windows XP), my computer thought they were
Quicktime movie files (DV file type). I told it to always open that type of
file with Excel, and that is working fine, but it is still giving these files
a Quicktime icon. More an annoyance than anything else, but there should be
a way to change it so they have an Excel icon, shouldn't there?

My Computer > Tools Menu > Folder Options > File Types tab

....lets you change the icon associated with a file extension.

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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

grannash wrote:
> I am using some Excel files with a .dif extension, and when I switched to a
> new computer (still using Windows XP), my computer thought they were
> Quicktime movie files (DV file type). I told it to always open that type of
> file with Excel, and that is working fine, but it is still giving these files
> a Quicktime icon. More an annoyance than anything else, but there should be
> a way to change it so they have an Excel icon, shouldn't there?

Thanks, it worked!

Laura

"Leonard Grey" wrote:

> My Computer > Tools Menu > Folder Options > File Types tab
>
> ....lets you change the icon associated with a file extension.
>
> ---
> Leonard Grey
> Errare humanum est

Glad to help.
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

grannash wrote:
> Thanks, it worked!
>
> Laura
>
> "Leonard Grey" wrote:
>
>> My Computer > Tools Menu > Folder Options > File Types tab
>>
>> ....lets you change the icon associated with a file extension.
>>
>> ---
>> Leonard Grey
>> Errare humanum est
>

In message <##0B$f$(E-Mail Removed)>, Leonard Grey
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>Glad to help.
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>Leonard Grey
>Errare humanum est
>
>grannash wrote:
>> Thanks, it worked!
>> Laura
>> "Leonard Grey" wrote:
>>
>>> My Computer > Tools Menu > Folder Options > File Types tab
>>>
>>> ....lets you change the icon associated with a file extension.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Leonard Grey
>>> Errare humanum est
>>

I have a friend who likes his filetype icons set up just so - for sound
and video files, he usually uses icons from the standard set (but e. g.
..wav and .mp3 as _different colour_ speaker symbols), not those of the
software he usually uses to play those files. (The actual association is
_almost_ irrelevant - he nearly always plays them using "send to" rather
than double-click or click-and-enter.)

From time to time, usually when some mishap occurs, something sets his
filetype icons (especially sound files, IIRR) all back to some default,
which infuriates him (because of the time he knows it'll need to put
them back how he likes).

Any idea what's causing this, and in particular, how to stop it? We've
obviously been through many restarts when the crash or whatever has
_not_ happened, so his preferences ought to be well and truly stored;
also, when coming back after whatever it is, other things do not seem to
have been set back, so it seems it's something that specifically
restores icon associations that's cutting in, not just a general system
rollback. Probably something that was intended to be helpful.
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