Re: Add / Remove Programs list showing wrong icons

From: Kelly (kelly_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 02:08:24 -0500

Hi Morad,

Just curios, does the displayicon for this program have a - number? Either
way, could you post the uninstall key/values here for DAOC? 

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"mhajii210" <mhajii210@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:52ed01c42ced$c184e580$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>I have searched the various newsgroups and I have yet to
> find an answer.  Does anyone have any idea why for some
> programs an incorrect icon is displayed under the Add /
> Remove Programs list (Windows XP Pro SP1)?  For example,
> three of my installed Critical Updates have the icon for
> Dark Age of Camelot, Trials of Atlantis (game) instead of
> the default windows installer icon (monitor + cd-rom +
> package icon).  I know how to manually edit the registry
> to assign a displayicon path, but does anyone know why it
> is displaying the wrong icon to begin with?  When I
> uninstalled the DAOC game, the icons go back to the
> correct windows installer default icon, but upon
> reinstalling the game it goes back to displaying the
> wrong icon.  Is this a known issue or bug?  Thank you.
>
> Morad

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