Multiple icons for file formats associated with Winamp messed up on Windows 7 & 10

[Wineroz]

You have to right click on the key and select permissions, then click on the Advanced button and delete the Deny permission entry.

That has worked, thank you

But it worked only in the sense that the blocked entry in Registry was now accessible to my REG file



And also after using my REG hack a loop of glitched "settings" was created:
the Registry was unblocked and I was able to change the icons to the desired ones >>> but at the same time a left double click opened those fileformats in another audio related software >>> associating files with Winamp was blocking them again in the Registry

I went through the entries the Registry deleting the invocations of that other software but somehow it did not help at al. It was only after adding this to the Registry

code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Winamp.File.APE]

@="Free Lossless Audio Codec File"



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Winamp.File.APE\shell]

@="Play"



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Winamp.File.APE\shell\open]

@=""



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Winamp.File.APE\shell\open\command]

@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Winamp\\winamp.exe\" \"%1\""



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Winamp.File.APE\shell\open\DropTarget]

"Clsid"="{46986115-84D6-459c-8F95-52DD653E532E}"



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Winamp.File.APE\shell\Play]

@="&Play in Winamp"

"LegacyDisable"=""



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Winamp.File.APE\shell\Play\command]

@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Winamp\\winamp.exe\" \"%1\""



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Winamp.File.APE\shell\Play\DropTarget]

"Clsid"="{46986115-84D6-459c-8F95-52DD653E532E}"

that the situation became normal: i.e. I have my icons and the files open themselves in the Winamp. I modeled those above entries from another Winamp associated audio fileformat for which I successively have changed its icon a long time ago



Although I fear that after once again restoring my operating system from an image and applying to it the now working solution, all of this will once gain somehow break itself. And I base this o the fact that I only had to do that for the APE format, leaving TTA as it was [aside from unblocking it in Registry]. And so I will come back and tell, if everything went well and sustained itself



And on the side note

Is this

code:
Clsid

thing some kind of ID that will be different on other operating system- like after installation of it from scratch? Or even it will be different on the same machine but with different installation of [in this case] Winamp- like after un-installation and then a re-installation of it? Thus I will have to adjust my REG files after changing computers?

[Wineroz]

That has worked, thank you
[...]
I fear that after once again restoring my operating system from an image and applying to it the now working solution, all of this will once gain somehow break itself. [...] And so I will come back and tell, if everything went well and sustained itself

It seems to be working after restoration



But this still remains an unknown facet to me

And on the side note

Is this

code:
Clsid

thing some kind of ID that will be different on other operating system- like after installation of it from scratch? Or even it will be different on the same machine but with different installation of [in this case] Winamp- like after un-installation and then a re-installation of it? Thus I will have to adjust my REG files after changing computers?

So, does anyone know an answer to theese questions

[Wineroz]

[...]
it worked
[...]
the situation became normal
[...]

Unfortunately...

After installing up-to-date Windows 10 from scratch on w new machine I once again had huge and numerous problems with settings the icons right, a those REG hacks once more did not work in their entirety



Long story short: in the end I had to basically revert to usage of free FileTypesMan by NirSoft and do it on a file-by-file basis, double checking each time the results

[And all of that is because Winamp was poorly designed in terms of its Registry entries, with the NCH Switch Sound File Converter Plus being even more messier in this regard; and with newer versions of Switch being even worse - thus creating a fatalistic combo]



But at least I was able to find a new and easy way of breaking off of the file entanglements [which in theory can be used for all kinds of file formats / pieces of software]. The user has to just select a file of the problematic file format and tell it to always open with some other software, preferably the one that is not used by the user for anything [e.g. assign APE to Groove Music] - and then re-assign it back to Winamp. And that is it, as it should work even without a reset of the operating system. And that can be checked with the usage of F2 option within the aforementioned FileTypesMan. all that is left to do then is to set an icon for the now free file format

[Wineroz]

Unfortunately...
[...]
[And all of that is because Winamp was poorly designed in terms of its Registry entries, with the NCH Switch Sound File Converter Plus being even more messier in this regard; and with newer versions of Switch being even worse - thus creating a fatalistic combo]



But at least I was able to find a new and easy way of breaking off of the file entanglements [which in theory can be used for all kinds of file formats / pieces of software].
[...]

But again: beware of NCH Switch Sound File Converter Plus

When re-installing later on this piece of software I ended up with such messed Registry that I had to uninstall Switch in order to be able to play files by double clicking. [And in the end had to restore the operating system from an image]

Switch creates huge mess in Registry. Others users reported this to NCH years ago on their forum - and apparently they only spread and multiplied the problem instead of fixing it

[Wineroz]

My findings about this issues continue in this thread:

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?p=3220578