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I remember I had installed some graphic program. It took over file association of everything graphic and all of the icons looked the same!  I uninstalled the program and even that didn't help.  All that did was give me icons without file association. I couldn't get back my default Windows icons no matter what I did.  I went to the companies website and found out that there is no way to get back the association of default Windows without running a patch that the company created because too many people were complaining.  Never installing that thing again!  

You must be talking about Irfanview. I now use XnView, and won't go back :)

Back to the subject at hand, we are forced to use Stuffit at work for ZIPs, and I am absolutely in awe of how horrid this little app is. Out of all the many, many free/cheap archive utilities, Stuffit is by far the worst I have ever used (NO DRAG AND DROP!!! WTF!?).