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htm files on the desktop won't display the associated icon
I am running XP SP3 pro. For some reason, saved web pages (htm and html
extension) don't display the correct icon (for my default browser) on the desktop, but a generic icon, as when a file does not have an icon associated with it. I am able to start the application by doubleclicking the file, therefore I assume that basically the file association is OK. I have tried manually to set the file association using File Types or Always Open With, but this does not solve the problem - or the change somehow is not saved. This is not a very critical issue but I would like to resolve it. Ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Margo Guda. |
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htm files on the desktop won't display the associated icon
Hello Margo
MVP Ramesh Srinivasan has a helpful page on this: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/htmicon.htm I had a similar problem with icons that simply refused to display properly and Ramesh's HTMLIconFix utility sorted it. Good luck, let us know how it goes :-) -- Nightowl Margo Guda wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008: I am running XP SP3 pro. For some reason, saved web pages (htm and html extension) don't display the correct icon (for my default browser) on the desktop, but a generic icon, as when a file does not have an icon associated with it. I am able to start the application by doubleclicking the file, therefore I assume that basically the file association is OK. I have tried manually to set the file association using File Types or Always Open With, but this does not solve the problem - or the change somehow is not saved. This is not a very critical issue but I would like to resolve it. Ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Margo Guda. |
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htm files on the desktop won't display the associated icon
Hello Nightowl, thanks for trying.
It took a while before I could try this, but here are the results: I went to Ramesh Srinivasan's website and first tried the instructions. That did not help, and in fact I had already tried correcting the icon index in the registry. I then tried downloading and installing the application he has there. But when I tried to run it, my antivirus software (Avira) identified it as a trojan. I guess I'm stuck. I have quarantined it but it cannot be repaired. Do you think it is a false alarm? Nightowl wrote: Hello Margo MVP Ramesh Srinivasan has a helpful page on this: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/htmicon.htm I had a similar problem with icons that simply refused to display properly and Ramesh's HTMLIconFix utility sorted it. Good luck, let us know how it goes :-) -- Nightowl Margo wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008: I am running XP SP3 pro. For some reason, saved web pages (htm and html extension) don't display the correct icon (for my default browser) on the desktop, but a generic icon, as when a file does not have an icon associated with it. I am able to start the application by doubleclicking the file, therefore I assume that basically the file association is OK. I have tried manually to set the file association using File Types or Always Open With, but this does not solve the problem - or the change somehow is not saved. This is not a very critical issue but I would like to resolve it. Ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Margo Guda. |
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htm files on the desktop won't display the associated icon
Margo Guda wrote on Fri, 21 Nov 2008:
Hello Nightowl, thanks for trying. It took a while before I could try this, but here are the results: I went to Ramesh Srinivasan's website and first tried the instructions. That did not help, and in fact I had already tried correcting the icon index in the registry. I then tried downloading and installing the application he has there. But when I tried to run it, my antivirus software (Avira) identified it as a trojan. I guess I'm stuck. I have quarantined it but it cannot be repaired. Do you think it is a false alarm? Hi Margo When I had a similar problem, I tried manually correcting it too, and nothing worked except Ramesh's utility. Ramesh is a very generous, helpful Microsoft MVP and I personally would be happy to run any file from his site, though of course you must decide for yourself. I'd suspect your AV is giving a false alarm because the utility writes to the registry. Hope you do find an answer. -- Nightowl |
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htm files on the desktop won't display the associated icon
Hi Nightowl,
I risked it & ran the thing. What happened is that now the icon for internet explorer is displayed, and the file is associated with internet explorer, as was explained on the website, in your post, and in the readme. So I'm not saying I wasn't warned. I tried to make sure at least that the file is actually opened by mozilla Seamonkey which is my default browser. And that happens correctly. So it's only the wrong icon now, that is displayed; is there a way to get the seamonkey icon displayed? Shortcut icons, btw, are displayed correctly. Nightowl wrote: Margo wrote on Fri, 21 Nov 2008: Hello Nightowl, thanks for trying. It took a while before I could try this, but here are the results: I went to Ramesh Srinivasan's website and first tried the instructions. That did not help, and in fact I had already tried correcting the icon index in the registry. I then tried downloading and installing the application he has there. But when I tried to run it, my antivirus software (Avira) identified it as a trojan. I guess I'm stuck. I have quarantined it but it cannot be repaired. Do you think it is a false alarm? Hi Margo When I had a similar problem, I tried manually correcting it too, and nothing worked except Ramesh's utility. Ramesh is a very generous, helpful Microsoft MVP and I personally would be happy to run any file from his site, though of course you must decide for yourself. I'd suspect your AV is giving a false alarm because the utility writes to the registry. Hope you do find an answer. |
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htm files on the desktop won't display the associated icon
Hi Margo,
See if this FAQ helps you set SeaMonkey as the default. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser -- Regards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog "Margo Guda" wrote in message ... Hi Nightowl, I risked it & ran the thing. What happened is that now the icon for internet explorer is displayed, and the file is associated with internet explorer, as was explained on the website, in your post, and in the readme. So I'm not saying I wasn't warned. I tried to make sure at least that the file is actually opened by mozilla Seamonkey which is my default browser. And that happens correctly. So it's only the wrong icon now, that is displayed; is there a way to get the seamonkey icon displayed? Shortcut icons, btw, are displayed correctly. Nightowl wrote: Margo wrote on Fri, 21 Nov 2008: Hello Nightowl, thanks for trying. It took a while before I could try this, but here are the results: I went to Ramesh Srinivasan's website and first tried the instructions. That did not help, and in fact I had already tried correcting the icon index in the registry. I then tried downloading and installing the application he has there. But when I tried to run it, my antivirus software (Avira) identified it as a trojan. I guess I'm stuck. I have quarantined it but it cannot be repaired. Do you think it is a false alarm? Hi Margo When I had a similar problem, I tried manually correcting it too, and nothing worked except Ramesh's utility. Ramesh is a very generous, helpful Microsoft MVP and I personally would be happy to run any file from his site, though of course you must decide for yourself. I'd suspect your AV is giving a false alarm because the utility writes to the registry. Hope you do find an answer. |
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htm files on the desktop won't display the associated icon
Thanks, Nightowl. Much appreciated!
Yes. It's a false-alarm by Avira, and I've requested Margo to send the screenshot of the AV window if possible, and their database version. The utility is packed using UPX which may cause some anti-virus tools to label it as virus. Once I get the sufficient details, I'll follow up with Avira. -- Regards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog "Nightowl" ] wrote in message ... Margo Guda wrote on Fri, 21 Nov 2008: Hello Nightowl, thanks for trying. It took a while before I could try this, but here are the results: I went to Ramesh Srinivasan's website and first tried the instructions. That did not help, and in fact I had already tried correcting the icon index in the registry. I then tried downloading and installing the application he has there. But when I tried to run it, my antivirus software (Avira) identified it as a trojan. I guess I'm stuck. I have quarantined it but it cannot be repaired. Do you think it is a false alarm? Hi Margo When I had a similar problem, I tried manually correcting it too, and nothing worked except Ramesh's utility. Ramesh is a very generous, helpful Microsoft MVP and I personally would be happy to run any file from his site, though of course you must decide for yourself. I'd suspect your AV is giving a false alarm because the utility writes to the registry. Hope you do find an answer. -- Nightowl |
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htm files on the desktop won't display the associated icon
Ramesh,
Here is the info on Avira. I have also sent your file to them so they may already be aware of the problem. Product version 8.2.0.336 10/30/2008 Search engine 8.02.00.35 11/20/2008 Virus definition file 7.01.00.122 11/21/2008 Control Center 8.00.70.08 07/19/2008 Config Center 8.00.70.03 07/19/2008 Luke Filewalker 8.01.04.07 07/19/2008 Archive Library 7.06.00.03 01/17/2008 AntiVir Guard 8.00.01.30 10/31/2008 Filter 6.36.00.15 08/30/2006 Scheduler 8.00.00.17 10/31/2008 Updater 1.02.10.34 07/19/2008 Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP wrote: Thanks, Nightowl. Much appreciated! Yes. It's a false-alarm by Avira, and I've requested Margo to send the screenshot of the AV window if possible, and their database version. The utility is packed using UPX which may cause some anti-virus tools to label it as virus. Once I get the sufficient details, I'll follow up with Avira. |
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htm files on the desktop won't display the associated icon
Hi Ramesh,
In the preferences, Seamonkey is already the default browser. I think it may be a question of too many html document keys in the registry; I am unable to change the icon that is displayed by windows explorer. (First it was the generic icon, then after I ran your utility, it is the internet explorer icon.) And in the registry the html document is fixed to refer to the internet explorer icon. I don't know how to make it point to the seamonkey icon instead. (Only editing the htmldocument key does not do the trick). Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP wrote: Hi Margo, See if this FAQ helps you set SeaMonkey as the default. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser |
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htm files on the desktop won't display the associated icon
Hi Margo
Sorry it only half-helped :-( I use Firefox and after running Ramesh's utility the icons were reset to Internet Explorer's (as you say, this is mentioned on the website). But I was then able to go back into Tools | Folder Options | File Types to associate .htm and .html files with Firefox, and this time the icon correctly changed too. Previously, though the association itself changed to Firefox, nothing would seem to get rid of that generic icon. If going back into File Types and re-associating with Seamonkey doesn't do it, I'm afraid I don't know what else to suggest. Perhaps Ramesh can think of something else to try. Sorry, I do hope you find an answer. -- Nightowl Margo Guda wrote on Sat, 22 Nov 2008: Hi Nightowl, I risked it & ran the thing. What happened is that now the icon for internet explorer is displayed, and the file is associated with internet explorer, as was explained on the website, in your post, and in the readme. So I'm not saying I wasn't warned. I tried to make sure at least that the file is actually opened by mozilla Seamonkey which is my default browser. And that happens correctly. So it's only the wrong icon now, that is displayed; is there a way to get the seamonkey icon displayed? Shortcut icons, btw, are displayed correctly. Nightowl wrote: Margo wrote on Fri, 21 Nov 2008: Hello Nightowl, thanks for trying. It took a while before I could try this, but here are the results: I went to Ramesh Srinivasan's website and first tried the instructions. That did not help, and in fact I had already tried correcting the icon index in the registry. I then tried downloading and installing the application he has there. But when I tried to run it, my antivirus software (Avira) identified it as a trojan. I guess I'm stuck. I have quarantined it but it cannot be repaired. Do you think it is a false alarm? Hi Margo When I had a similar problem, I tried manually correcting it too, and nothing worked except Ramesh's utility. Ramesh is a very generous, helpful Microsoft MVP and I personally would be happy to run any file from his site, though of course you must decide for yourself. I'd suspect your AV is giving a false alarm because the utility writes to the registry. Hope you do find an answer. -- Nightowl |
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htm files on the desktop won't display the associated icon
Hello Nightowl, and Ramesh, if you're still watching this thread, you
may be pleased to learn that I finally solved this problem. It must have been something with how Seamonkey does the install. These days I am using both version 1 and version 2, but mostly 2. It has a built-in update option that does not completely reinstall the program; but version 1 does not have this. Recently I updated version 1, by installing the new version from the installer. Lo and behold! - the desktop icons are finally properly reflecting seamonkey as the default htm application. Just thought I'd let you know. Nightowl wrote: Hi Margo Sorry it only half-helped :-( I use Firefox and after running Ramesh's utility the icons were reset to Internet Explorer's (as you say, this is mentioned on the website). But I was then able to go back into Tools | Folder Options | File Types to associate .htm and .html files with Firefox, and this time the icon correctly changed too. Previously, though the association itself changed to Firefox, nothing would seem to get rid of that generic icon. If going back into File Types and re-associating with Seamonkey doesn't do it, I'm afraid I don't know what else to suggest. Perhaps Ramesh can think of something else to try. Sorry, I do hope you find an answer. -- Nightowl Margo wrote on Sat, 22 Nov 2008: Hi Nightowl, I risked it& ran the thing. What happened is that now the icon for internet explorer is displayed, and the file is associated with internet explorer, as was explained on the website, in your post, and in the readme. So I'm not saying I wasn't warned. I tried to make sure at least that the file is actually opened by mozilla Seamonkey which is my default browser. And that happens correctly. So it's only the wrong icon now, that is displayed; is there a way to get the seamonkey icon displayed? Shortcut icons, btw, are displayed correctly. Nightowl wrote: Margo wrote on Fri, 21 Nov 2008: Hello Nightowl, thanks for trying. It took a while before I could try this, but here are the results: I went to Ramesh Srinivasan's website and first tried the instructions. That did not help, and in fact I had already tried correcting the icon index in the registry. I then tried downloading and installing the application he has there. But when I tried to run it, my antivirus software (Avira) identified it as a trojan. I guess I'm stuck. I have quarantined it but it cannot be repaired. Do you think it is a false alarm? Hi Margo When I had a similar problem, I tried manually correcting it too, and nothing worked except Ramesh's utility. Ramesh is a very generous, helpful Microsoft MVP and I personally would be happy to run any file from his site, though of course you must decide for yourself. I'd suspect your AV is giving a false alarm because the utility writes to the registry. Hope you do find an answer. |
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htm files on the desktop won't display the associated icon
Thanks for the update Margo.
Glad you got this issue resolved. -- Regards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog "Margo Guda" wrote in message ... Hello Nightowl, and Ramesh, if you're still watching this thread, you may be pleased to learn that I finally solved this problem. It must have been something with how Seamonkey does the install. These days I am using both version 1 and version 2, but mostly 2. It has a built-in update option that does not completely reinstall the program; but version 1 does not have this. Recently I updated version 1, by installing the new version from the installer. Lo and behold! - the desktop icons are finally properly reflecting seamonkey as the default htm application. Just thought I'd let you know. Nightowl wrote: Hi Margo Sorry it only half-helped :-( I use Firefox and after running Ramesh's utility the icons were reset to Internet Explorer's (as you say, this is mentioned on the website). But I was then able to go back into Tools | Folder Options | File Types to associate .htm and .html files with Firefox, and this time the icon correctly changed too. Previously, though the association itself changed to Firefox, nothing would seem to get rid of that generic icon. If going back into File Types and re-associating with Seamonkey doesn't do it, I'm afraid I don't know what else to suggest. Perhaps Ramesh can think of something else to try. Sorry, I do hope you find an answer. -- Nightowl Margo wrote on Sat, 22 Nov 2008: Hi Nightowl, I risked it& ran the thing. What happened is that now the icon for internet explorer is displayed, and the file is associated with internet explorer, as was explained on the website, in your post, and in the readme. So I'm not saying I wasn't warned. I tried to make sure at least that the file is actually opened by mozilla Seamonkey which is my default browser. And that happens correctly. So it's only the wrong icon now, that is displayed; is there a way to get the seamonkey icon displayed? Shortcut icons, btw, are displayed correctly. Nightowl wrote: Margo wrote on Fri, 21 Nov 2008: Hello Nightowl, thanks for trying. It took a while before I could try this, but here are the results: I went to Ramesh Srinivasan's website and first tried the instructions. That did not help, and in fact I had already tried correcting the icon index in the registry. I then tried downloading and installing the application he has there. But when I tried to run it, my antivirus software (Avira) identified it as a trojan. I guess I'm stuck. I have quarantined it but it cannot be repaired. Do you think it is a false alarm? Hi Margo When I had a similar problem, I tried manually correcting it too, and nothing worked except Ramesh's utility. Ramesh is a very generous, helpful Microsoft MVP and I personally would be happy to run any file from his site, though of course you must decide for yourself. I'd suspect your AV is giving a false alarm because the utility writes to the registry. Hope you do find an answer. |
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htm files on the desktop won't display the associated icon
Margo Guda wrote on Mon, 8 Dec 2008:
Hello Nightowl, and Ramesh, if you're still watching this thread, you may be pleased to learn that I finally solved this problem. It must have been something with how Seamonkey does the install. These days I am using both version 1 and version 2, but mostly 2. It has a built-in update option that does not completely reinstall the program; but version 1 does not have this. Recently I updated version 1, by installing the new version from the installer. Lo and behold! - the desktop icons are finally properly reflecting seamonkey as the default htm application. Just thought I'd let you know. That's great news, Margo. I'm really glad you found the answer :-) -- Nightowl |
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