I suddenly lost my MAX icon.  When browsing my 3D drive, every max file shows as a generic windows icon instead of a max icon.

I guess Windows has somehow lost the icon association (the icon is still in the ui folder), any ideas how to get it back?

Windows 7
Max 2010 SP1 32/64
Max 2012 32/64
Intel Quad-core
8Gb ram

Read down to the bottom of this…I included pictures in my response at the end of the first link.

http://area.autodesk.com/for...cognize-previous-archive/

or

http://area.autodesk.com/for...tall-3ds-max-design-2010/

or

http://area.autodesk.com/for...ax-file-icon-was-changed/

or this might give you a preview of the file too…

http://area.autodesk.com/for...x-thumbnails-in-explorer/

3ds Max 9 thru 2013
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit OS SP1
Dual Intel® Xeon® 6 core X5650 @ 2.67GHz CPU 36GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000
450GB HDD (x3) and 2TB HDD

3ds Max 2012 Certified Professional Models to Motion

Got it fixed, thank goodness. It was very annoying to look at a listing of 400 files and not able to visually spot the right ones!

While I was at it, I realized I could do my own personal icons as well. Awfully tempting… :)

Windows 7
Max 2010 SP1 32/64
Max 2012 32/64
Intel Quad-core
8Gb ram

I ended up using a neat freeware called Types. After manually altering registry and using everything but the kitchen sink its rather ironic a simple app fixed it in two seconds.

Windows 7
Max 2010 SP1 32/64
Max 2012 32/64
Intel Quad-core
8Gb ram