I recent­ly installed E‑TextEditor and made it my default pro­gram for open­ing var­i­ous, devel­op­ment-relat­ed file types (i.e. .php, .py, .txt, etc.). With build 1.0.24, it seems that if you make it the Default Pro­gram for text files (.txt exten­sion), the icon asso­ci­at­ed with the type seems to be miss­ing.

Here’s a quick solu­tion that I found through search results, to cor­rect the blun­der (till E‑TextEditor gets that process fixed). Note: be sure to back­up your reg­istry before doing any changes as a pre­cau­tion; or even have some­one who knows what they are doing do it for you if you are unfa­mil­iar with the process.

1. Click on START, or hit the WIN­DOWS-key
2. Type in the fol­low­ing where it says “Start Search”:

   regedit

3. Go through these fold­ers:

   HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT > txtfile > DefaultIcon

4. Then replace

   C:\Programmi\e\e.exe,e

   with

   %SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-152

You should now have your text files dis­play a decent, look­ing icon (i.e. the default Notepad.exe one).