Resolved Icon files: Display or not?

Hi all,

I had a problem with my cursors being hijacked by IMGBurn. Thanks to Arie I was able to restore them by going into: Folder Options | File Types and deleting the Open With.

Now some of my icons (.ico) aren't displaying and I can't open them with anything. I can, however, change the picture on folders to any of the icons that won't display.

Are .ico files supposed to show like cursor files? I've forgotten.

 

Hi Arie,

If there's no program associated to open them, aren't they supposed to display what they are? I've changed the ".ico" to ".cur" and ".jpg" and they display just fine. And, like I said, neither Paint nor Win Pic & Fax Viewer will open them, but I can change the picture of a folder using any .ico file.

Would there be any harm or destruction to my system if I changed them to the above extensions so I could see what they are?

 

That's what I'm trying to do: Get the .ico files to show what they are. Doing a complete system repair install seems a little radical just to get icon files to show what they are.

 

In Windows Explorer right-click any file with a ".ICO" extension and select "Open with... ". Select the "Select the program from a list" option and then click the "OK" button. In the "Programs" pane of the "Open with" window, select "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer ", then select (check/tick) the little box to the left of "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file ", and then click the "OK" button.

 

Hi Doc,

I can do that. My main thing is: Aren't .ico files supposed to display what they are? If I've got, say, 50 icons, how am I supposed to know what they look like without having to use WP&F Viewer? Like I said, if I change the .ico extension to .cur, the picture of what the icon looks like is displayed.

 

On my XP PRO some do and some don't.

 

AHA! So it's not just my machine. Thank you for that. Now, I'll leave it alone and not worry that somethings wrong somewhere.