Files no longer being associated with icons...

Ronan|Raven

As of 2 days ago, any file on my machine thats an image file (.bmp/jpg.gif etc) and any Html pages or text documents no longer display their asscoiated icon. In the properties it shows that the desired icon is still there but it is not displaying on screen. Its nothing disastrous but I was wondering if anyone has had this problem before or know of a fix?

Bard

I usually find that the Rebuild Icons option in TweakUI sorts this out. If you don't have TweakUI, you can get it by searching for PowerToys on Microsoft's site.

the Guru

Yes This happened to me only yesterday God knows how it happened or why but here how to Fix it.........

If you go to MY COMPUTER then click on the C drive it should give you a view
of the directory structure. On this window click on VIEW and select
OPTIONS, you should see a small window with three tabs, select FILE TYPES.
Once here scroll down through the list of file types until you find GIFs,
delete the entry for GIFs by highlighting it and then selecting remove. The
next time you go to open a GIF windows will ask what file to open it with,
select Internet Explorer from the list of programs and this will create an
association between Internet Explorer and GIFs. Hope this does the trick
for you:)

Declan

tman

Originally posted by the Guru
Yes This happened to me only yesterday God knows how it happened or why but here how to Fix it.........

If you go to MY COMPUTER then click on the C drive it should give you a view
of the directory structure. On this window click on VIEW and select
OPTIONS, you should see a small window with three tabs, select FILE TYPES.
Once here scroll down through the list of file types until you find GIFs,
delete the entry for GIFs by highlighting it and then selecting remove. The
next time you go to open a GIF windows will ask what file to open it with,
select Internet Explorer from the list of programs and this will create an
association between Internet Explorer and GIFs. Hope this does the trick
for you:)

Declan

an easier way to do this is:
hold shift, right click on file you want to open, choose 'open with', browse for internet explorer or whatever...
i think the tweakui idea is handier tho (worth getting anyway)

Ronan|Raven

The tweakui option didnt work, nor did the other suggestion, the guru you were spot on it worked a treat, they needed to be deleted before attepting to reassociate the programs it seems...

Thx for the help.

mike65

...but what I want to know is why that happens..?

Mike.

Bard

Originally posted by mike65
...but what I want to know is why that happens..?

Perhaps because Windows isn't all that clever really...?

spongebob

...if they work they are in the registry

if they 'disappear' then the registry has been modified.....hum

typically this only happens if anothe rprogram 'takes over ' association

if the broken association was for a .gif then I would ask if a graphic program or a browser had been added or removed immediately before the problem occured.

I would normally go with tman with the added proviso that you put a tick in the

'always use this program'

box at the bottom of the file association window to save the setting permanently

still very odd