No icon on rar files

Cant see icon on rar files.
I checked filetype and and preference and all look fine.


There are no extensions in the screenshot. Is the first file a rar and the others zips?

What do you see in File Explorer for the same files?

  1. yes the first is rar other is 7z and zip
  2. same is in file explorer

If there's no icon in Explorer either than the RAR type isn't set up correctly in the registry. (The File Type editor is quite limited vs the complexity of how the registry works.)

Installing a tool like WinRAR or 7-Zip and making it the default RAR handler will usually fix that kind of thing.

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