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Win2K: .als icons become generic after removing Live 2.0.3

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 9:41 pm
by rasputin
For a long time I've had 2.0.3 on my system. I finally realized there's no point in keeping it since I have been using 3.0.1 for months and it's been as solid as a rock...

After I removed 2.0.3, weirdly, all my .als files now have a generic Windows document icon. I went to Folder Options>File Types and tried to fix it there. It shows the Live icon in the dialog window but the desktop doesn't show it. Clicking on a .als still opens the session in Live 3, it's just that the icons are wrong. The .asd files still show the Live icon.

I have browsed the web and MS support sites and there are a couple of recommendations: delete the invisible ShellIconCache file and restart, or change the display bit depth and change it back. I haven't been able to try these yet, but until I do I thought I'd throw this question out to see if anyone on W2K or XP has seen a similar problem.

Thanks for any insight you might want to give...

Tim S.

Fixed

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:38 pm
by rasputin
What I did was to run Regclean.exe after removing Live 2.0.3. Then you reboot, go to Folder Options -> File Types and set the .als type back to "Default" and voila...everything is fixed...

If the same problem occurs if in the future I remove Live 3 in favor of Live 4 I'll try the same fix.