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Windows 7: change icon in explorer

11 Jun 2009   #1

 
 
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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11 Jun 2009   #2

64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 & Windows 8 Enterprise
Texas
 
 

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,
Shawn
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