OS is shrinking my icons

[OPti3020]

Hi,

I'm using a portable of a PDF editor and I want to have .pdf file associations for it so i built & merged a reg file that does call my editor when I click on a pdf file.
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And the icons for the exe & shortcuts to the exe show the proper, desired icon:
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But the icons shown for pdf files has the desired icon shrunken inside a white border:
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If I look at pdf files in File Types Mgr it shows the correct icon but i'm guessing that there's something that the registry wants to see that I didn't add that's causing the problem.

Anyone have a clue here?

 

[file3456]

I think the problem is because you have PDFXEdit.PDF and not PDFXEdit.exe in your registry file.

Here's mine from the CLASSES_ROOT folder:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXEdit.exe]
"FriendlyAppName"="PDF-XChange Editor"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXEdit.exe\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXEdit.exe\shell\edit]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXEdit.exe\shell\edit\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Tracker Software\\PDF Editor\\PDFXEdit.exe\" \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXEdit.exe\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXEdit.exe\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Tracker Software\\PDF Editor\\PDFXEdit.exe\" \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXEdit.exe\shell\print]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXEdit.exe\shell\print\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Tracker Software\\PDF Editor\\PDFXEdit.exe\" /print \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXEdit.exe\shell\printto]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXEdit.exe\shell\printto\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Tracker Software\\PDF Editor\\PDFXEdit.exe\" /printto \"%2\" \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXEdit.exe\SupportedTypes]
".pdf"=""
".fdf"=""
".xfdf"=""
".xps"=""
".xclpack"=""
".xcesession"=""

 

[file3456]

Here are all 14 registry hits for default icon. The registry looks to have some 9,000+ entries just for PDF-XChange alone.

 

[OPti3020]

F22 Simpilot: Thanks for your reply. I added what was in your reg file that wasn't in mine (other than un-needed file types) - ie:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXEdit.exe\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXEdit.exe\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\PDFXEdit.exe\shell\open\command]
@="\"F:\\Office\\PDFX_Edit\\PDFXEdit.exe\" \"%1\""

but, unfortunately it didn't solve the "shrinking icon" problem.

 

[OPti3020]

SOLVED: OS is shrinking my icons

On a whim I tried using Windoze's Default Program app to set PDFXEdit as my default app for .pdf and I monitored the process with RegShot 3 (Randy's Download Homepage) (highly recommended!)

It made only one change - replacing:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.pdf\UserChoice]
"Progid"="Applications\\PDFXEdit.exe"

with:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.pdf\UserChoice]
"Progid"="PDFXEdit.PDF"

This solved the problem and my file icons now display correctly.

 

[file3456]

Glad you fixed it. Mark this thread solved.

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