How to use original file icons for GIF,JPG,PNG files?

[Quido]

Is there a way to force Win XP to use the old GIF,JPG,PNG icons instead of
the new, unified icon, used by the XP image viewer? I would like to know at
the first sight what kind of files are there in the folder, and I dont want
to have file extensions visible.
Any help will be appreciated...

 

[Guest]

You can turn off the extensions via the tools menu >
folder options then clicking the view tab (I think) there
is an option for displaying extensions of known file types
there.

as far as icons go, you can set up which icons are used
manually in the same area of the tools menu. but that can
be tiresome. Sorry I can't help any more

 

[Alex Nichol]

s there a way to force Win XP to use the old GIF,JPG,PNG icons instead of
the new, unified icon, used by the XP image viewer?

As long as you have not set up some third party graphic program that
has brought them altogether as one 'type', go to Control Panel - Folder
Options - File Types and look for each extension. Highlight , click
Advanced, and there is a Change Icon.

 

[Quido]

Is there a way to force Win XP to use the old GIF,JPG,PNG icons instead of
the new, unified icon, used by the XP image viewer? I would like to know at
the first sight what kind of files are there in the folder, and I dont want
to have file extensions visible.
Any help will be appreciated...

As long as you have not set up some third party graphic program that
has brought them altogether as one 'type', go to Control Panel - Folder
Options - File Types and look for each extension. Highlight , click
Advanced, and there is a Change Icon.

It's not a third party program doing this, it is the standard Windows XP
image viewer, shipped with the system. The viewer is all very fine but... It
really brings PNG and GIF files (and may be other) together as one
'supertype' and I really have no idea how to affect this supertype. It must
be somewhere in the registry, I wonder where... Yes, I can access file types
(GIF, PNG) through Control Panel -> Folder Options, but this is not of much
help. If I click Change Icon, I can see there the correct icon for the file
type, however, this doesn't affect the supericon appearing in explorer.
Any idea, anyone? Thanks in advance...