@BLUE-AGENCY ,
Actually, v8.1.4’s icons do have the chameleon, except for the smallest 16x16 and 32x32 pixel icons. You can see this by changing Windows Explorer from Details or Small Icons to any of Medium Icons, Large Icons, or Extra Large Icons. – All of the bigger icons still have the chameleon as the executable icon, and AFAIK, Notepad++ usually assigns that icon to file types associated with Notepad++.
I had to go back to v5.0 from 2008 before the executable defaulted to a non-chameleon-based icon.
(my video is focused on the executable; I hadn’t changed the file type associations for XML, so it’s still using the v8.1.3/v8.1.4-style icon for those files; just look at the executable’s icon for the point I was trying to make)
And further, Windows allows you to change the icon for any file type to anything – whether it’s in the executable or a standalone icon or from some other DLL or executable. If you’ve got an icon you prefer, you can search the internet for “change icon for file type” and find a gazillion references for how to do that in your particular OS.