Tips & 

Windows 95 

Tricks

Bitmap as Icon
 

You can have the icon of all your BMPs a small picture of the actual bitmap:

Open regedit
Find Paint.Picture (or whichever program BMPs are registered to)
Add a New Key under Paint.Picture DefaultIcon
In the right pane, change the Default Value (by Double Clicking it) to %1. 
“%1 tells windows the default icon for this file type is in the file itself-since there is no icon in a BMP file, Windows 95 makes a small preview image of the BMP for the icon. Makes sorting and viewing BMPs super easy.

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