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You can easily change a file type's icon in Windows XP. As more and more people use Windows 7, we should learn more tips about Windows 7. Now i will show you a way to change a file type's icon in Windows 7.
File Types Manager
File Type Manager is a Windows utility program that allows you to manage Windows file types, actions and shell extensions. It offers far more functionality than similar programs or the built-in Windows tool. Apart from that it is one of the only programs available that allows you to manage shell extensions.
You have to look for a few seconds to see the difference between the movies and the text files.
Let's change the icon for the movie files to make visually scanning through directories much easier.
Open up File Types Manager.
Find the "Default Icon" column and click on it to sort the list by the Default Icon. (We've hidden a bunch of columns we don't need, so you may find it to be farther to the right.)
This groups together all file extensions that already have the same icon. This is convenient because we want to change the icon of all video files, which at the moment all have the same default icon.
Click the "Find" button on the toolbar, of press Ctrl+F. Type in a file type that you want to change.
Note that all of the extensions with the same default icon are grouped together.
Right click on the first extension whose icon you want to change and click on Edit Selected File Type, or select the first extension and press F2.
Click the "" button next to the Default Icon text field.
Click on the Browse button. File Types Manager allows you to select .exe, .dll, or .ico files.
In our case, we have a .ico file that we took from the wonderful public domain Tango icon Library.
Select the appropriate icon (if you're using a .exe or .dll there could be many possible icons) then click OK.
Repeat this process for each extension whose icon you would like to change.
New features in version 2.0 of File Type Manager:
updated user interface
faster performance
search feature
support for file type flags
support for new shell extension types
documentation
With File Type Manager, you can set any file type's icon as you like.
Download File Types Manager from NirSoft for Windows
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