change icon in explorer

[TheUnseen]

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?

 

[Brink]

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