SumatraPDF can display many filetypes but its logo is only applied to those that you set it to be the default openerĪ user or their application can change the logo for a given filetype so you can change the icon for. It is a long time question, and the answer is still the same as per your question in MayĪll filetypes open by an application have a default icon as set by “Windows” file association Perhaps instead of waiting indefinitely for some graphics designer to custom design and contribute a bunch of icons, it might be better to just pick from some free set and go ahead, or possibly even commission a set. reg for it, but the point’s still valid). That way I would no longer have to assign my own icons every time manually when installing the app for the first time and associating it with file types of my choosing (well actually I have a. The ideal situation for me would be for Sumatra’s EXE or a separate DLL containing distinct icons for each supported file type, all following a common design theme of course. Maybe some folks don’t care about having different file formats all bunched together and looking the same, but others (including me obviously) certainly do. It supports a whole bunch of audio/video formats, and the fact that it has a unique (yet thematically similar) icon and file type description for each means I can sort properly by type in Explorer and also immediately tell at a glance what I’m working with. However if a modern app like say my video player were to start doing this it would drive me nuts. Now I don’t blame Notepad and Paint so much because they’re ancient apps that until recently were basically left untouched for decades and date back to when they possibly just handled. Using a common icon for all the possibly gazillion file types supported by an app is a ridiculous and lazy way of doing things. NotePad or i.e ONE icon suits all the different file types each app handles. MS screwed up by having a different icon for their Edge app compared to the traditional When compared to most of their other apps e.g.

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