VLC player taking over Desktop Icons

[Indyrod]

I've searched the Net and found numerous examples, of after installing the VLC Player and opening it, it changes all the desktop icons to VLC. I had that happen the first time I installed it and opened it. I couldn't figure out what happened except I had to fix it, so I did a restore to an earlier time, and uninstalled VLC, and never bothered with it again. I would like to have VLC, but I have not read a single post that tells me, why this happens, and how to stop VLC from taking over my desktop icons, so I decided to just not use it. hopefully you techies can help explain this, and how to get around it. evidently, just opening VLC associates every EXE icon to VLC,and I can't believe nobody has ever fixed it. I would like to install VLC, but this association problem makes it not worth the problems. any advice you guys can give regarding this issue, would be appreciated. I've never seen a program that does this, but VLC does. thanks in advance.

 

[Adbear]

Isn't it because it just associates those file types with VLC? You can re-associate files with other programs by going into the Windows control panel and then into 'Default programs' and in there you can reset file associations individually or by program

 

[mike20021969]

but this association problem makes it not worth the problems.

During installation, set Select the type of install to Custom on the drop-down menu, then make sure to un-check File type associations (and any others like the dreaded Context Menus integration):



If you miss that for some reason, you can deselect the file types via Tools>Preferences: