Win7 it does Dislike Photoshop 7.0 .PSD file Icon

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I have a very strange issue, while Photoshop 7.0 this is installed properly due Retail software package at Win 7 Pro x64.

The file icon for .PSD this stay white.

Windows 7  file type settings does not help at all, regarding the icon issue.

My .PSD files they do open normally with Photoshop 7.0, there is no productivity problems other than the white icon issue.

All other Photoshop 7.0 & Adobe ImageReady 7.0 associated file types the do appear with the appropriate icon.

Emptying windows icons cache this did not help either.  Icons cache this is not corrupted in any way.  Neither it seems to be a problem of corrupted registry.

The system it is at 100% of health, Error free event log.

I am looking for any fresh ideas.

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Perform the following steps:

• Right click on the icon.
• Select Properties.
• Select Shortcut.
• Select Change Icon.
• Select the icon you wish to use.

 

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Photoshop 7.0  icon files are hosted within Photoshop.exe

For example the file thankyou.psd this appears with white icon.

Can you elaborate further with your instructions ?

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I have Photoshop 7 on my Win7 machine and at some point in the 20 years I’ve had the Adobe program, the thumbnail view of the project file converted to white. Not sure when that happened. The .jpeg thumbnail file has the photoshop icon and my .psd files are white. Frankly it doesn’t bother me because the file name shows when hovering over the icon or I can right click to get info on any particular file. Personally I wouldn’t try to change the icon on a .psd file because there’s no guarantee it wouldn’t revert back to white at some point.

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Today I have come down to a final conclusion about the WHY the problem is there, and additionally I did discovered a workaround all by myself.

Windows 7 and it files explorer this totally ignore (due a Microsoft operating system bug) they registry entry at:  [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesPhotoshop.Image.7DefaultIcon]

With third party software I did succeed to change *.PSD files handling by the extension of *.EPS .

By doing so one new registry line added which this dictates what Icon will be used, and windows never ignore this Registry Key.

EPS default icon this appears as Reg:

“C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Photoshop.exe,11”

PSD default icon this appears as Reg:

“C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Photoshop.exe,1”  (and gets ignored).

The concept this is rather simple, since today the EPS file type icon this is changed to use the PSD default icon instead.

This first change forced also windows explorer to change file description from Photoshop Image file to EPS file.

The final step of the workaround was of me getting at (right click – Open With) and instead using the existed Photoshop shortcut, I did navigate due folders at the location on the HDD of Photoshop.exe

The outcome =  Photoshop.exe restored at the Registry that this is .PSD file, but the file icon this is now controlled due the .EPS file settings at the registry.

Now I have back the .PSD icon

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