File Association - White Leaf Instead Icons

User Soft

Hello.
Please tell why when I register the file association through the NOTEPAD++ settings, then the icons of the corresponding file types turn into a white sheet?
Example:
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Windows 10 Pro 20H2 x64, notepad++ 7.9.4 Portable

User Soft

You can add standard Windows icons in NotePad++ with file associations so that the display of the icons is the same as with the standard Windows notepad, but the file has always opened through NotePad++

P.S: Sorry for my English, i use Google Translate.

User Soft

Please do not ignore my message :(

PeterJones

@User-Soft said in File Association - White Leaf Instead Icons:

Please do not ignore my message :(

Sorry, there are dozens of questions a day, and occasionally one or two slip through unanswered; and when you reply to yourself, it stops showing up as “0 replies”, so it’s not as obvious that it hasn’t been answered. For example, I didn’t chime in because I don’t use that menu to make associations (I’ve never trusted apps to change associations in a reasonable manner on their own, so I do all my associations in the registry myself), so I was hoping someone who uses the internal association settings would be able to chime in; and in the meantime, since none of the “recent messages” showed up as “0 replies”, I hadn’t noticed no one ever replied to you.

Unfortunately, I still don’t know how to make the icon right from inside Notepad++.

Assuming that your registry maps .txt to txtfile , then if you go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\, there should be a DefaultIcon key; mine has (Default) value set to %SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-102 which uses the standard windows text-file icon

mere-human

@User-Soft I’m not sure but maybe you need to install the Notepad++ locally instead of using a portable version.
Maybe then the icons would be displayed differently.
Like this:

I’ve done it with local installation of Notepad++.