Drawing Icons Changed

[cjshaw]

I'm running ACAD 2004 LT. For some reason, when I look at a directory of dwg's, the drawing icons have changed from the 2004 blue/white to the 2007 yellow/greenish. What happened? I also have Autodesk Design Review, DWG Trueview 2010 and Buzzsaw 2009 installed.

Thanks!

[BWells]

Chances are that that new programs you have there are the culprits and pretty much overwrote the .ico file. It's not really a bad thing. honestly, in Windows 7 the icons are changed by the windows itself to act like a thumbnail picture all the time therefore making the DWG icon useless.

[cjshaw]

I figured as much, any way of changing them back, i.e settings in some of the "culprits"

[cjshaw]

I'm also running XP and as this is at a company will probably do so for some time.

[nukecad]

You can change the icon through the control panel >folder options> filetypes, select the dwg icon, click advanced, click change icon.

 

You will probably have to browse to find the icon you want.

[cjshaw]

Thanks Nuke-

I have three ACAD LT running at the same time (have a three screen display) that I work on with dwg's, I also leave my PC fired up all week and shutdown for the weekend. I had closed one of the three instances today then reopened. Now when I look in any directory under the AC I reopend, I have the 2007 icon, the 2004 one is still displayed in the directories of the other two instances. If it was just a file or two no big deal but I need admin rights any how to change.

I also just notced that when I see a 2007 icon it says it is a DWG Trueview Drawing as compared to the 2004 icon, an AutoCAD LT drawing. Seems like a link somewhere with Trueview and AutoCAD but where and how to disable? This is a shared network drive and I don't want this to affect others.