Officially requesting the VLC installer to not modify my registry/icons/file associations

[TigerNightmare]

This seems to be a new annoyance. Even if I set the installer to keep old settings or specifically set a custom install with all file associating unchecked, it always always changes my file names to the generic 'VLC file" and every icon is the generic cone. This is extremely obnoxious. Not every file format is created equal and it makes finding what I'm looking for in list view more difficult. I have to spend something like 10 minutes fixing it so mp3 has its own icon, mkv has its own icon, wmv has its own icon ... and so on, until I can distinguish between the file types I typically use again. I'm tempted to download the 7z version and just extract the contents into the directory, but I worry that some settings/features can break if a significant enough change occurs. Please give me a "Don't modify file associations" button. Thank you.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Using the 7z file will work fine.