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Using James' method works great, if you want to go the extra mile you can do the following:

1. Create the .bat anywhere, it doesn't matter where.
2. Convert the .bat to a .exe
3. If VLC is already your default media player then right-click your video file and click open with>choose another app>your new exe.

Using James' method works great, if you want to go the extra mile you can do the following:

1. Create the .bat anywhere, it doesn't matter where.
2. Convert the .bat to a .exe
3. If VLC is already your default media player then right-click your video file and click open with>choose another app>your new exe.

You can use a program like "resource hacker" to change the icon to be the cone if you want to go even farther into being a VLC developer.

Using James' method works great, if you want to go the extra mile you can do the following:

1. Create the .bat anywhere, it doesn't matter where.
2. Make a shortcut on your desktop/taskbar/start menu/etc. and then you can change the icon to be the cone by copying the path of the VLC icon from the actual VLC application.
3. If VLC is already your default media player then right-click your video file and click open with>choose another app>your new shortcut.

Set that shortcut as default for that file type and videos will always easily play with mixed audio tracks

Refresh file explorer to make sure nothing looks ugly and if it does and it never fixes itself you can turn off "Display file icon on thumbnails" in your folder settings at the top of file explorer.

Using James' method works great, if you want to go the extra mile you can do the following:

1. Create the .bat anywhere, it doesn't matter where.
2. Convert the .bat to a .exe
3. If VLC is already your default media player then right-click your video file and click open with>choose another app>your new exe.

Using James' method works great, if you want to go the extra mile you can do the following:

1. Create the .bat anywhere, it doesn't matter where.
2. Make a shortcut on your desktop/taskbar/start menu/etc. and then you can change the icon to be the cone by copying the path of the VLC icon from the actual VLC application.
3. If VLC is already your default media player then right-click your video file and click open with>choose another app>your new shortcut.

Set that shortcut as default for that file type and videos will always easily play with mixed audio tracks

Using James' method works great, if you want to go the extra mile you can do the following:

1. Create the .bat anywhere, it doesn't matter where.
2. Make a shortcut on your desktop/taskbar/start menu/etc. and then you can change the icon to be the cone by copying the path of the VLC icon from the actual VLC application.
3. If VLC is already your default media player then right-click your video file and click open with>choose another app>your new shortcut.

Set that shortcut as default for that file type and videos will always easily play with mixed audio tracks

Refresh file explorer to make sure nothing looks ugly and if it does and it never fixes itself you can turn off "Display file icon on thumbnails" in your folder settings at the top of file explorer.