Default zip file icon

How can I get my Windows zip icon back? Thanks to Ramesh I can now open zip
files but thee Internet Explorer icon is being used as the zip file icon.

How can I get it back? I'm not too computer literate when it comes to
working on H_keys in the registry, if that's what it takes, but I can follow
good instructions.

Can a clever person help me out please?

Here's the Registry key. Copy everything between the dotted lines, including
empty lines but not including the dotted lines, and paste it into a fresh
plain-text file using Notepad, for instance. There must be two empty lines
at the bottom. Press Ctrl-End to make sure the cursor is on the second line
below the last line of type. Save the file, close it, then rename it
"Compressed Icon.reg". Now right-click it and choose Merge. I'm not
convinced your compressed folders (that's what MS calls them) associations
have been totally repaired, but this is the part you're asking for. You can
also download a REG file to fix the entire association here:
http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ows-Vista.html
Look in the box full of file-extensions and download the one for ZIP files.

If you'd rather do it yourself, use REGEDIT to locate the following key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Compressed Folder\DefaultIcon

Double-click the "Default" entry (the only one that should be there), and
make it this:

%SystemRoot%\System32\zipfldr.dll

Make sure that the "Type" is "REG_EXPAND_SZ". If it's not, post back. I know
it doesn't look like the entry below. One's in plain text, the other is in
"hex". Translated, they mean the same thing. Note that you can't "undo" a
Registry edit, so it's SOP to Export the Key before editing it.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CompressedFolder\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00 ,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00 ,32,00,5c,00,7a,00,69,00,\
70,00,66,00,6c,00,64,00,72,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c ,00,00,00


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Ronin

"Ted" <> wrote in message
news:07B48538-888B-46A4-BF2A-...
> How can I get my Windows zip icon back? Thanks to Ramesh I can now open
> zip
> files but thee Internet Explorer icon is being used as the zip file icon.
>
> How can I get it back? I'm not too computer literate when it comes to
> working on H_keys in the registry, if that's what it takes, but I can
> follow
> good instructions.
>
> Can a clever person help me out please?

Ted;1241016 Wrote:
> How can I get my Windows zip icon back? Thanks to Ramesh I can now ope
> zi
> files but thee Internet Explorer icon is being used as the zip fil
> icon
>
> How can I get it back? I'm not too computer literate when it comes t
> working on H_keys in the registry, if that's what it takes, but I ca
> follo
> good instructions
>
> Can a clever person help me out please

Right click on the icon in question and select properties
Then select "change Icon". See if the one you want is there and, if so
select it

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rhlhamlet

Hello Ted,

The ZIP download option in the tutorial below should be able to restore
the icon for you. It will restore all default ZIP associations and
settings in Vista.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/23...s-restore.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn


Ted;1241016 Wrote:
> How can I get my Windows zip icon back? Thanks to Ramesh I can now open
> zip
> files but thee Internet Explorer icon is being used as the zip file
> icon.
>
> How can I get it back? I'm not too computer literate when it comes to
> working on H_keys in the registry, if that's what it takes, but I can
> follow
> good instructions.
>
> Can a clever person help me out please?


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