How do I change the Icon for MP3 files and not wav files?

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Cynyster - 26 May 2008 23:03 GMT

In XP I used to have windows media player open the majority of my audio files.
(wav, mp3, wma, .etc) But I had a differant windows explorer icon so it was
easier to differentiate between them by sight instead of just by extention. How
do I go about that in vista? As far as I can tell I can change which program
opens a particular file but I do not see where I can change the default Icon.
(I have Vista Ultimate and two accounts one a normal user that wish to operate
from with UAC active and one an admin to allow me to elevate my credentials)
any ideas? Thanks in advance

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Justin Martin [MSFT] - 27 May 2008 08:46 GMT

I don't think there is a way to do this through the user interface, as the
icon is owned by the installing application. If you're dead set on doing it
and overriding the defaults, you could change the resource directly in the
registry. Take a look at:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WMP11.AssocFile.MP3\DefaultIcon
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WMP11.AssocFile.WAV\DefaultIcon

Keep in mind that this is an unsupported action, and you'll want to make a
backup of the registry keys to restore in case you break something
accidentally.

Justin

> In XP I used to have windows media player open the majority of my audio files.
> (wav, mp3, wma, .etc) But I had a differant windows explorer icon so it was
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> from with UAC active and one an admin to allow me to elevate my credentials)
> any ideas? Thanks in advance

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