How change icon per extension (windows)

BobSquarePants

Hi everyone,

I changed the default program for my .ini and .txt and set Notepad++

The problem is when I change the default icon for the .txt extension it also put the same for the .ini :/

and it make “sense” because the reg is pointing there ->
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\notepad++.exe\DefaultIcon

for all the extension linked to notepad++ and not per extension as for example winamp ->

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Winamp.File.MP3\DefaultIcon

Where you can a different icon per extension…

Any idea how to achieve the same with Notepad++ ?

Ekopalypse

@BobSquarePants

Any idea how to achieve the same with Notepad++ ?

I don’t have any experience it this but what about
using the same technique as done with winamp?
Maybe something like HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Notepad++.File.TXT\DefaultIcon

BobSquarePants

Thank you @Ekopalypse
I was thinking about it, but I was wondering that maybe someone had a neat tool to do it.
if not I’ll do this this week-end manually.

Maybe something like HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Notepad++.File.TXT\DefaultIcon

yes , and deleted the previous reference and created all the reg keys for this.

I’ll post here my final product / solution when done.

Cheers

BobSquarePants

Done,

So it quite easy. You should let .ini .txt attach to their default apps (notepad.exe)
and simply change manually the reg info from
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\inifile
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\inifile\shell\open\command pointing to Notepad++
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\inifile\DefaultIcon The .ico of your choice

and that it.
You should avoid Windows to make the binding for you :)