ACDSee has hijacked XP Explorer icons

[Roger Smith]

When I installed ACDSee it became the default for jpg files and
displayed its icon in Explorer. Later right-clicked on a jpg in
Explorer | Open with | Photoshop | Always use.... Files open in
Photoshop but still have the ACDSee icon.

Tools | folder options | File types shows JPG as opening with
Photoshop and has the Photoshop icon; JPE shows opening with Photoshop
but has the ACDSee icon; JPEG show opening with MS Photo Editor but
has an unknown icon.

I have since uninstalled ACDSee, but the ACDSee icons remain.

How can I exorcise this haunting by ACDSee?

 

[John McGaw]

When I installed ACDSee it became the default for jpg files and
displayed its icon in Explorer. Later right-clicked on a jpg in
Explorer | Open with | Photoshop | Always use.... Files open in
Photoshop but still have the ACDSee icon.

Tools | folder options | File types shows JPG as opening with
Photoshop and has the Photoshop icon; JPE shows opening with Photoshop
but has the ACDSee icon; JPEG show opening with MS Photo Editor but
has an unknown icon.

I have since uninstalled ACDSee, but the ACDSee icons remain.

How can I exorcise this haunting by ACDSee?

Might it be a simple misuderstanding over the word "open"? With, for
example, a JPG file you can have multiple programs assigned -- one to edit,
one to print, one to display for example and so far as I know there is no
real limit to the number of associations for one file type. When ACDSee is
installed it always did (and I assume still does) ask what extension you
want it to take care of for the functions it is able to perform and if you
give it permission it will gladly take on them all but it is easy enough to
change the associations for each file type to whatever you want. Have you
checked what programs have been assigned to the various possible options
using the "advanced" tab among the file associations?
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[jim]

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[Roger Smith]

Hello John,
The association is OK. Open with Photoshop works. But Explorer shows
an ACDSee icon instead of a Photoshop icon.

 

[Roger Smith]

Nothing malicious here. My guess is just sloppy programming. Probably by ACDSee.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Hello John,
The association is OK. Open with Photoshop works. But Explorer shows
an ACDSee icon instead of a Photoshop icon.

Go to Control Panel - Folder Options - File types. Scroll down to the
extension of interest (unless ACDSee has changed it makes individual
ones for each, instead of bringing them together in a single one to
edit). Click Advanced and there is a 'Change Icon', where you can
browse it to whatever source you like (probably in the Photoshop's exe
file). You can also select which if the possible Actions you want to
have as the default for a double-click