Preventing Custom / Preview icons

Hello
I am running Mac OS X 10.5.7 and want the Operating System to leave my icons alone. For example, I prefer my PDF documents to have the generic Adobe PDF icon instead of a custom icon indicative of what's in the document. Likewise with my other document types!
I want to do this for two reasons:
1. My computer would start up a lot quicker if it didn't spend all that time converting icons to their custom "preview" icons.
2. It would be easier to quickly identify at a glance what type of documents I'm looking at.
I thought there was a setting somewhere in preferences, but can't seem to find it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Joe.

Hi Joe,
That setting is configured on a per-folder basis. With said folder open in its own window, bring up the 'View Options' from the 'View' menu and uncheck "Show icon preview" box. Should you want this to be your default setting, click on the "Use as defaults" button.
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