Changing icons for text files with classic notepad reinstalled

Using the instructions from the winaero page (Get Old Classic Notepad for Windows 11) I've installed classic notepad and set it as the default for opening text files. That's all fine. However, I'm not overly keen on the default icon for text files that classic notepad uses which is bright blue and would like to change it. I like to keep most file types as pale, unobtrusive icons, reserving bright colours for things I'd like to stand out.

I tried the go-to program for doing things like this, Default programs Editor, and associated text files with a suitable icon I'd found. DPE now shows this as the default icon, but explorer is still showing (even after rebooting) the classic notepad icon that I'm like to get rid of. Anyone got any other suggestions?

The image below shows the icon preview, as now detected by DPE next to what explorer is still displaying a text file as.



This is only a minor annoyance, so if there's no fix I'm not going to lose sleep. Well much sleep. :)

I'm using Win11 Pro, with the latest updates.

Seems aero has a problem. I tried getting3 classics and all I got was a black screen. Bypassing aero does work.

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billmcct said:

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It was a joke eg: and no, I am not the moron.

My bad. I took it as serious.