Why are my icons no longer previewing in Explorer?

This is a discussion about Why are my icons no longer previewing in Explorer? in the Customization Tweaking category; Hi Gang, I used to be able to preview all my icons in Windows Explorer. However now all I see is the associated application's icon for the. ico extension as the image for each icon in explorer. Here are my registry settings: Quote: @=Icon @=%1 @=Open.

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Hi Gang,
I used to be able to preview all my icons in Windows Explorer. However now all I see is the associated application's icon for the .ico extension as the image for each icon in explorer.
 
Here are my registry settings:

Quote: 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile]
@="Icon"
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\DefaultIcon]
@="%1"
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell]
@="Open.VisualStudio.7.1"
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell\open]
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell\open\command]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Microangelo\\studio.exe %1"
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell\Open.VisualStudio.7.1]
@="Open with Visual Studio .NET 2003"
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell\Open.VisualStudio.7.1\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\\Common7\\IDE\\devenv.exe\" /dde"
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell\Open.VisualStudio.7.1\ddeexec]
@="Open(\"%1\")"
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell\Open.VisualStudio.7.1\ddeexec\application]
@="VisualStudio.7.1"
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\shell\Open.VisualStudio.7.1\ddeexec\topic]
@="system"
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico]
@="icofile"
"Content Type"="image/x-icon"
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\OpenWithList]
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\OpenWithList\devenv.exe]
@=""
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ico\PersistentHandler]
@="{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"

. What I don't understand is why if the following registry key is there Quote:[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofile\DefaultIcon]@="%1"
doesn't the icon's image appear any longer in my explorer views? %1 clearly refers to the icon itself. Here's what I'm now seeing inside of Explorer:

 
Thanks in Advance for any and all help regarding this matter,
Christian Blackburn

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That is odd. Couldn't help noticing that you have Microangelo installed. Could it have changed (hijacked) the icons?

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You can download the powertoy TweakUI and have it rebuild the icons.
 
That may help

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Hi Sapiens74,
You da man! Not only did I already have TweakUI Installed, but your suggestion worked great.
 
 

 
PS: MicroAngelo has an option to install some program that'll animate your icons and what not, but I have always skipped that. There's nothing worse than animated icons when you're into performance and stability .
 
Thanks for the help,
Christian Blackburn