Icons in Windows Explorer

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I use the Detail view in Widows Explorer for file & folder use. Sometimes I
have very large executible files (>100MB) which Windows insists on reading
through to find an icon to display. This can lock up my PC for a couple of
minutes at a time. It's even worse when Windows tries to read icon data from
a floppy disk, despite the (relative) small size. How can I get XP to just
display the default icon for executibles, and not dig for the embedded ones?
TIA, beav
 
Paul said:
I use the Detail view in Widows Explorer for file & folder use. Sometimes I
have very large executible files (>100MB) which Windows insists on reading
through to find an icon to display. This can lock up my PC for a couple of
minutes at a time. It's even worse when Windows tries to read icon data from
a floppy disk, despite the (relative) small size. How can I get XP to just
display the default icon for executibles, and not dig for the embedded ones?
TIA, beav
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Start>Run>Regedit

Find the key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\DefaultIcon

Its current value will be "%1" (minus the quotes). Change it to the
following:

%SystemRoot%\System32\shell32.dll,-153

and your .EXE files will now all display with the same icon as .BAT
files. Hope this helps...

mhc
 
Well, it's "a" solution <g>. I guess I'm just being picky. Doing this turns
ALL my .exe shortcuts on the desktop as well as .exe's in Win Explorer to
..bat icons. I admit it _does_ fix the wait problem. Think I'll hold out for
something more specific to my problem, though. Thanks anyway,

beav
 
Paul said:
Well, it's "a" solution <g>. I guess I'm just being picky. Doing this turns
ALL my .exe shortcuts on the desktop as well as .exe's in Win Explorer to
.bat icons. I admit it _does_ fix the wait problem. Think I'll hold out for
something more specific to my problem, though. Thanks anyway,

beav
Click to expand...

You can change the desktop shortcut icons back to whatever you want by
right-clicking on the desktop icon, selecting Properties, and clicking
the "Change Icon..." button. But the fact is, you cannot selectively
change the way Windows displays icons for specific file types, ie,
whatever you choose (either a specific icon, or "embedded icon 0" in
files which contain icon resources) will be used for ALL files of that
type.

So you have a choice: live with your problem and look at all the pretty
different icons for .exe files, or solve your problem and look at a
single icon for .exe files -- which is the way Windows works for just
about every other file type. I'll bet you can guess which option I think
you should choose!

mhc
 
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