Re: Music File Q

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 07:56:44 GMT, "pmj" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

"Smokey" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I use winamp as my audio player, all the icons on my music files
have changed from the winamp icon to....................how can
I describe it, looks like a white background with the right top
corner turned down, and a little multicoloured box in the middle.
how can I revert back to the winamp icon please ??

I know you have sorted it now (by doing a ReInstall of WinAmp & also
a System Restore, so I dunno which one actually sorted the prob),
but you can change the Icons easily yourself...

JoeH mentioned that WinAmp has some Options for Selecting different
Icons for it, but *windoze* also has a [Change Icon] Button, so you
can Browse to whatever File you want, to Pick whatever Icon you want
for any File Type...

Go to:
Control Panel (or windoze Explorer>Menu>Tools)
Folder Options

Switch to the "File Types" Tab.
Scroll down until you come to one of the File Types that you want
to change (there will be several - cos some File Types have more than
one File Extension Associated with them), but if you change one File
Type Icon, then that will (or should!) change the Icon for all the
File Extensions that are Associated with that FileType.

Select the File Type & Click [Advanced...]
In the Next Dialog Box, you get a Button labelled: [Change Icon...]
Click that & it Opens up a "Change Icon" Dialog Box, with a bundle
of Icons in it already.
The Icons will be from one of a number of different actual *Files*,
so if none of the Icons there are what you want, you can Click the
[Browse...] Button & Navigate to whatever File you want.

If you want to use a WinAmp Icon, then Navigate to the WinAmp Folder
in Program Files & look for the WinAmp .EXE File (or one of the .DLL
Files) - otherwise Navigate to any other .EXE or .DLL File Folder,
in the windoze (or System32) Folder.

Have a look in the file called "moreicons.dll" & also in "shell32.dll"

They have loads of Icons to choose from.

When you've found one you like, Click ]OK] all the way back out.

Remember the *Icon* that happens to be shown for any given File
Extension (or File Type) is something completely separate from what
the File actually Opens up in!!!

So there's endless scope for lots of fun & games & Confuzzlement.
:-)

HTH

Sorry fpr not knowing, but what is WINAMP?

David C.
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