# Changing to the Explorer Icon

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-to-the-explorer-icon/165040>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [October 7, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-to-the-explorer-icon/165040 "2005-10-07T01:43:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-to-the-explorer-icon/165040/1 "2005-10-07T01:43:38Z")

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This has been bothering me for the longest time on my computer, and I don’t understand what happened to make it show up this way…

You know how you see an icon for a file in your folder…(my documents folder or whatever)…There’s an icon to show it’s a photoshop file, there’s an icon to show that it’s a microsoft word file, and ect.

Well, my Explorer icon is not showing up to my html files. Instead, that annoying icon that appears when you have to choose a program from a list appears. It still opens in explorer, but the icon doesn’t show up to tell you that. It’s really annoying. I’ve tried everything, but I can’t seem to find the problem.

Does anyone know how to fix this? I’d appreciate it.

maria-