icon missing

[Eric]

How do I make the little icons appear in Windows Explorer? I associated
files with Wordpad, Notepad, etc. MS Office associated it's own files.
Those all show associated files with the appropriate icons. I downloaded a
free text editor called Context, which has an icon associated with it. I
associated a file extension to use this program. Nothing in Windows
Explorer shows the icon for the file extension I associated. I recently
reformatted my PC, and I did reinstall the text editor. I'm sure these
files used to show the icon.

 

[Bob I]

In a open folder select Tools, Folder Options, Filetypes, scroll to the
extention in question, select advanced, then change Icon, Browse to the
EXE file and snag it's icon.

 

[Eric]

The problem was, it didn't have an Advanced button. It had some message
about "you have customized this extension"? All I had done was to select
the extension in the Context editor under it's association options. I tried
associating a different extension from this editor and it looked fine. Then
I went back in and selected to "change" this "customized" extension. Then
the Advanced button appeared but it had disappeared from the associations
listed in the editor. Then I added it back in to the editor's associations
and now it looks fine. I'm not sure how the File Types list was showing it
as "customized".