Windows Photo Gallery cannot display Vista Icons

When you double-click a Vista icon, for example acwizard.ico in
windows\system32, Windows Photo Gallery says "Photo Gallery can't open this
picture or video. The file appears to be damaged or corrupted".

It's not corrupted, but the compressed graphics within the icon appear to
upset Photo Gallery.

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do you know that photo gallery SHOULD be able to display icons? im gonna say
probably not, but i could be wrong. an icon isnt a simple "image" file



"Mike Bell" <MikeBell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8648ECF0-1801-49BC-BDA8-F9AB4854AB7A@microsoft.com...
> When you double-click a Vista icon, for example acwizard.ico in
> windows\system32, Windows Photo Gallery says "Photo Gallery can't open
> this
> picture or video. The file appears to be damaged or corrupted".
>
> It's not corrupted, but the compressed graphics within the icon appear to
> upset Photo Gallery.
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> this
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> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...ista.gen eral

As far as I know, you can view the icon file as a thumbnail in explorer, but
not open it up using Paint of Photo Gallery.


"Mike Bell" <MikeBell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8648ECF0-1801-49BC-BDA8-F9AB4854AB7A@microsoft.com...
> When you double-click a Vista icon, for example acwizard.ico in
> windows\system32, Windows Photo Gallery says "Photo Gallery can't open
> this
> picture or video. The file appears to be damaged or corrupted".
>
> It's not corrupted, but the compressed graphics within the icon appear to
> upset Photo Gallery.
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...ista.gen eral

Yes. It displays icons that aren't internally compressed just fine.

It is a mistake for it to say that the example icon I mentioned is corrupted.

// Mike

"Troy McClure" wrote:

> do you know that photo gallery SHOULD be able to display icons? im gonna say
> probably not, but i could be wrong. an icon isnt a simple "image" file
>
>
>
> "Mike Bell" <MikeBell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8648ECF0-1801-49BC-BDA8-F9AB4854AB7A@microsoft.com...
> > When you double-click a Vista icon, for example acwizard.ico in
> > windows\system32, Windows Photo Gallery says "Photo Gallery can't open
> > this
> > picture or video. The file appears to be damaged or corrupted".
> >
> > It's not corrupted, but the compressed graphics within the icon appear to
> > upset Photo Gallery.
> >
> > ----------------
> > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> > this
> > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> > click "I Agree" in the message pane.
> >
> > http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...ista.gen eral
>
>