>Yesterday I installed the January 2002 edition of the MSDN Library and VS.Net. At the time, I noticed that the icon that was being used for it was the one associated with my icon editor. Not having the time to play with it then, I just got around to investigating this and some other side effects that seem to have occurred.
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>Side effect 1 is that icons in the Windows Explorer no longer display the contents of the file, but rather the editor associated with them.
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>Side effect 2 is that using a DLL (such as Shell32) which contains a number of icons do not use the icon referenced, but rather the DLL icon.
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>The only time this seems to work as it did is with an EXE file.
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>Side effect 3 is that all my folder setting in the Windows Explorer have been re-set to their default.
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>I don't know if this has something to do with the installation of IE 6.0 or not. The box is a Win2KPro SP2.

I think this was caused by IE6.

I am not sure if it was related, but I have also noticed that the "+" sign in the explorer stay there even if it was no subfolder in the displayed folder. I have the habit to click on the "+" to expand folders and with this new behaviour, I click and reclick and reclick with no result, grrrrrrrr...