Solved ICO files now blank

[Whitebear]

After installing Irfanview on WXPSP3 all of my ICO files no long display as the icons that they are, they've all switched to the Windows blank icon. I tried disassociating the ICO format under extensions in the options window but no luck, it just kept switching back. I've also tried clearing all associations and uninstalling Irfanview completely, but mu ICO files are still blank. What gives? How do I get my ICO files back?

[Sprintdriver]

Hi.

Open regedit and navigate to here:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico
Read the name in right pane (this is different for different version and language packs of windows)

Navigate to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\<the name you just read>\DefaultIcon

Set the default value to "%1" (without quotes).

Restart windows.

That should work.

[edit]
Forgot to say. Use regedit with great care. Accidentally changing or deleting some random value may turn windows unusable. Therefore I take no responsibility if windows get worse.

[Whitebear]

[QUOTE=Sprintdriver;38780]Hi.

Open regedit and navigate to here:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico
Read the name in right pane (this is different for different version and language packs of windows)

This key has the following values:

Name: Data:
(Default) Irfanview.ico
Content type image/x-icon
Perceived type image

"image/x-icon" "Image" or "x-icon" Do not appear under Hkey Classes root
I tried setting the Irfanview.ico key to %1, but it didn't work. Ditto for Irfanview.ico/shell.

Under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile the default value is "icon" which looks like it aught not be changed
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile/Defaulticon is already set to %1


BTW, my .ani files have the same problem.

What am I missing?

[Sprintdriver]

"image/x-icon" "Image" or "x-icon" Do not appear under Hkey Classes root
I tried setting the Irfanview.ico key to %1, but it didn't work. Ditto for Irfanview.ico/shell.

Obviously you looks for the wrong thing here. Look for the Irfanview.ico register key.

Or change that default value to "Icofile". But make sure that the register key

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Icofile

really exists before changing the value HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico - Default from Irfanview.ico into Icofile.

[Whitebear]

Yeah, I manged to figure out it was "icofile", and got it to work. Thanks for your help Sprint