qBitTorrent GT.ru Guide

Shepard69

@ianfontinell said:
I also started to experience very poor performance with frequent freezes and the app refusing to close at all, staying in memory forever and forcing me to use the reset button because not even windows can unload it during a regular restart/shutdown.

I trashed Windows decades ago, switched to Linux Mint Cinnamon and could not be happier. Used qBitTorrent on it for over 15 years and the only problem I 'thought' I had, was that data file thingy you solved for me.

jokuihmemies

hey is it possible to change .torrent files image? now its hard to see if i have photo and torrent on the same folder.
im on windows 11

Kevin4fm

@jokuihmemies Do you mean the icon that represents ".torrent" files?

jokuihmemies

@Kevin4fm yup
as u can see on the picture white and blue... hard to notice which is which in quick look

Kevin4fm

@jokuihmemies I've certainly assigned icons to my own "pretend" file type (".xxx" files) but I can't remember how. Give me a sec and I'll ask my AI friend.

jokuihmemies

@Kevin4fm ️
chatgpt said i cant change it in windows unless i download 3rd party software

Kevin4fm

This is what my AI says. I can't test it myself cos I've switched to Linux now. (I'm assumng you use Windows.)

"If you mean changing the icon for an entire file type (e.g. all .txt files or all .xyz files), that's done through the Registry.

Press Win + R, type regedit, and press Enter.

Navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

Find the extension, for example:

.txt

The (Default) value tells you the file class. For .txt it's usually:

txtfile

Now navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\DefaultIcon

(If DefaultIcon doesn't exist, create it as a new key.)

Set the (Default) value to the icon you want, for example:

C:\Icons\MyText.ico

or

C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,70

where the number is the icon index within the DLL.

Restart Explorer (or sign out/in) to see the change."

Kevin4fm

LOL. My AI is also ChatGPT. You realise you can argue with them, right?

Is it possible you're not phrasing the question right? "How do I change the icon used to represent a file type when displayed in MS Explorer?"

jokuihmemies

@Kevin4fm well i copy paste urs to my chatgpt and it say oh yeah ure definitely right u can do it via regedit XDDD duh? xD

but it didnt work tho. ill try again tomorrow gotta sleep now

ianfontinell

@jokuihmemies said:

hey is it possible to change .torrent files image? now its hard to see if i have photo and torrent on the same folder.
im on windows 11

just skip the hard work and switch to a different image viewer, imageglass is the best viewer extremely customizable and versatile, and the icons are very distinctive: