Wrong icons assigned to media

[Keith Whitfield]

A strange problem but I can't sort it out. All my movie files (.avi .mpeg
etc) have the winamp music icon assigned to them. if i rightclick and select
open with and change it to say Cyberlink powerDVD and select allways use
this programe the icons still show Winamp and the properties say winamp
media. double clicking on the .avi file does open Powerdvd and runs it. I
tried uninstalling Winamp and all the icons changed to windows media player
even though clicking on the same avi file opens power dvd. It's a pain as i
never no what programe is going to open to show / play a paticular file. I
used to do the process above in Win ME to change the icons and programes and
it worked fine. Is there a diffrent way of doing it in Win XP Pro.

Thanks for your help
Keith

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Keith,

Download and install the correct version of TweakUI for WinXP. Open
TweakUI and go to Repair - Rebuild Icons and Repair Now. Reboot and
check the icons.

Microsoft PowerToys – Tweakui for WinXP: Ver. 2.10 requires WinXP SP1
and later
http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWSXP/home/downloads/powertoys.asp

With NO Service Packs installed, the earlier version can be found
here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

TweakUI can be accessed from Start - All Programs - Powertoys for
Windows XP

 

[Keith Whitfield]

Thanks. Just tried it but it didn't work. All it did was move some of my
icons around on the desktop

Any other ideas
Keith

Hi Keith,

Download and install the correct version of TweakUI for WinXP. Open
TweakUI and go to Repair - Rebuild Icons and Repair Now. Reboot and check
the icons.

Microsoft PowerToys - Tweakui for WinXP: Ver. 2.10 requires WinXP SP1 and
later
http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWSXP/home/downloads/powertoys.asp

With NO Service Packs installed, the earlier version can be found here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

TweakUI can be accessed from Start - All Programs - Powertoys for Windows
XP

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Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

A strange problem but I can't sort it out. All my movie
files (.avi .mpeg etc) have the winamp music icon
assigned to them. if i rightclick and select open with
and change it to say Cyberlink powerDVD and select
allways use this programe the icons still show Winamp and
the properties say winamp media. double clicking on the
.avi file does open Powerdvd and runs it. I tried
uninstalling Winamp and all the icons changed to windows
media player even though clicking on the same avi file
opens power dvd. It's a pain as i never no what programe
is going to open to show / play a paticular file. I used
to do the process above in Win ME to change the icons and
programes and it worked fine. Is there a diffrent way of
doing it in Win XP Pro.
Thanks for your help
Keith