Open Application Toolbar and Context Menu Icon - Fix

@Brink
I've reported the "bug" to MS but they simply ignored it and didn't even fully understand the problem.
If you can, as MVP, please report this problem.
The OS should display the selected application as the icon for the "Open" button (as a matter of fact the registry uses 'DefaultIcon=%1'), not fall back to a generic file icon...
For sure they have more important things to fix in the OS, but if they fix too would be better :)

What MS really needs is a direct contact with the users... That's what makes great and constantly evolving for example Linux. You can contact the author and report a bug and it will be fixed for sure. When will MS fully understand this?

Why use an exe if all we want is an icon file? Because we don't. I've used the excellent program Iconsextract to extract the icon from imageres.dll. You can copy it to \windows\system32 and all you have to do is to modify the registry value to "imageres_15.ico,-1". For this you will have had to change the registry like it's explained in the first post.

I've included the icon as an attachment

I see that there are 3 ways, on the first page of this tutorial to fix this problem. I was wondering Which of the 3 ways is safest, so that if Windows Update has a future fix, this fix will not interfere with the possible MS fix??

Thanks in advance,
Don

Thanks for this tutorial :)
For some reason the automatic method did not work. I had to manually specify the full .ico file path in regedit

Brink said:

Hello Yowan,

Strange, the REG file does the same thing as step 8 but automatically. Did you do step 9 after doing step 7?

Yes I killed explorer.exe but the icon did not change even with the 'Application_Icon.ico,-1', I had to add 'C:\Windows\System32\Application_Icon.ico,-1' to make it work