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Originally posted by rav0
Not using a GUI would sovle the problem as well, just like that sarcasm was unnecessary.
Maybe it was unnecessary and uncalled for, but your suggestion of reinstalling Windows was also unnecessary. In 99,999999999999% of all problems reinstalling Windows is never a true solution. It is suggested by people who don't know the real issue or how to solve something in the proper way
(sorry for the, again, rude talk maybe; it isn't meant personally. But lately I've seen more than enough "reinstall windows" suggestions)...
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Originally posted by rav0
Adjusting display setting will not change Windows Media Player files. Windows Media Player normally provides the icon resources for audio files that are shown in the first post.
No, adjusting the color settings will not "change" the icons (from a house to a cat), but it will change the resolution and color depth used for those icons. An icon (and certainly those associated with many Windows files and programs) actually can contain multiple icons of different sizes and color depths. Windows will always automatically choose the icon which fits the current used display settings.
People who report that their icons didn't change (as in: it is still a house that is displaying, not a cat), but that they seem a bit strange, pixelated, or full of 'random' pixels (thus appearance of the house has been changed) have often adjusted their display settings (by accident) or have used a program which altered the color depth... This is the number one problem in icon troubles.
Thus, if you said that the icon changed in appearance, but it is still the same icon, then it is logical that this is intepreted as what I said...
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Originally posted by rav0
Also, if the icon have been changed in appearance, but it is still the same icon being shown, just now modified, not a different icon, reinstalling Windows Media Player and/or Windows might restore them.
And thus reinstalling anything will not help at all, the icon will still be shown in a lower color depth.
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Originally posted by Reaper
[Edit] fixed it. apparently, the computer opened a .dll file to get the icons, so i used tune up utilities styler to change it back. thanks for everyones posts 
Thus, as people have said in the very beginning of this thread and which I repeated after the "virus" talk and what not: a simply association problem...
TuneUp Styler simply sets/assign an icon for a program/file. It does exactly the same as:
Windows Explorer > Tools > Options > File Types > select file type > Advanced > Set Icon, Set default action, etc...
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