MCBastos wrote:
Or so I thought. Turns out that there is a Microsoft piece of crap that
insists on ruining it: the so-called Office HTML Icon Handler
(MSOHEV.DLL). It is installed (no choice about it) with Office 2003, and
modifies the standard way Explorer handles HTML files: if it finds a
line in the HTML header indicating that an Office application generated
that file, it does two things:
1. If you right-click the file and choose "Edit", it will open the file
on the so-called "appropriate" application (usually Word, but sometimes
Excel or PowerPoint) instead of on the default HTML editor (Notetab, a
plaintext editor, in my case).
2. It will change the icon and filetype description in Explorer to
indicate the file "special" status as an "office HTML file."
(...)
Until, that is, when it *broke*. Now all my HTML files display the
"unknown file type" icon (although they are listed correctly as
"Seamonkey Document").
(...)
Has anybody managed to tame this beast?
I just checked and found that this reappeared on my PC as well. This is
what I did to fix it:
1. Start / Run -> regedit
2. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT -> .html -> SeaMonkeyHTML
3. change DefaultIcon value to C:\Program
Files\SeaMonkey\chrome\icons\default\html-file.ico (change to fit your
environment)
4. remove ShellEx/IconHandler
5. trigger reloading Explorer icons (I changed an entry in
Explorer/Tools/Folder Options/File Types; Tweak UI's Repair/Rebuild
Icons should work, too)
You can do most of the above with WAssociate
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/Associate/index.html>, just don't click
the icon button (at least for me the application locks up then and I
have to kill it using the Task Manager). If someone knows an even better
application for such tasks, please let me know. :-)
HTH
Jens
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Jens Hatlak <http://jens.hatlak.de/>
SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker <http://smtt.blogspot.com/>
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