change icon in explorer


  1. TheUnseen
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    W7
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    change icon in explorer


    I installed notepad++ and wish to change the icon since it has an ugly, 1995 icon to it for some reason. It looks ugly in explorer when viewing a list of registered file type extensions to notepad such as txt.

    How can I do this?
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  3. Brink
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    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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    Hello TheUnseen,

    You can use the tutorial below with step 5 to change the icons for the file extensions that are opened by Notepad++ with another one.

    File Extension Type Icon - Change - Vista Forums

    Hope this helps,
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