But since Windows 7, you’ve actually had to do some Registry hacking to make it happen.
Here’s a great little freeware utility that makes it much faster and easier.
We’ve shown you how tochange the icon for an EXE fileand how toremove the arrows from shortcut icons.
Now, it’s time to turn our attention to icons for file types.
The first thing you’ll need to do isdownload a copy of File Types Manager.
When the download finishes, unzip the folder.
poke the “Default Icon” column header to sort the list by the Default Icon.
Note that for our screenshot, we hid several columns to make things easier to see.
You may find the “Default Icon” column further to the right.
This groups together all file extensions that already have the same icon.
This is convenient if you want to change several related file types that use the same icon.
snag the “Find” button on the toolbar (or press Ctrl+F).
you might then click “Cancel” to end the “Find” window.
Right click extension whose icon you want to change and then select “Edit Selected File bang out.”
File Types Manager allows you to select EXE, DLL, or ICO files.
Before, all picture files were using the same icon—the default icon of our image viewer app.
Now it’s much easier to see at a glance which files types are which!
