Re: icon pictures

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Richard wrote:
I have the icons dumped in Windows\system32 and have pointed Change Icon to that location. I have been using a program called Pinnacle and it seems to like to crash out of control fairly often resulting in re formatting the drive. I can't seem to find another was out when it gets really bad.

I never thought of VB Script in Visual Basic 6 so will have to look into it. A good winter project.

Thanks


"Keith Miller MVP" <k.miller79@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ePNTF1NxGHA.3904@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Different icons for each shortcut?

Are you backing up and then restoring the shortcuts as well as whatever file contains the icon for the shortcut?

Shortcuts can be created and modified via VB Script. If this is something you need to do frequently, perhaps you should consider that approach.

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"Richard" <dandr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23b9$xaNxGHA.1284@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I guess to further explain this I am looking to have a picture on the icon that is not linked. Maybe this is not possible.

Richard

"Richard" <dandr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23jvCohKxGHA.2384@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am assigning a icon to a short cut. After formatting the hard drive I have to re install all the icons to the short cuts. I am trying to find a way around that by making the pictures on the short cuts permanent.

Richard

"Keith Miller MVP" <k.miller79@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23g6mI6JxGHA.1288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Richard,

I'm a little confused by the terminology you are using. When you assign a custom icon to a folder, that information is stored in the desktop.ini file within the folder. If you format and erase the folder, the icon info goes with it. If you are backing up & then restoring the folder after a format, check to see if the desktop.ini file still exists and contains info similar to the following:

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
IconIndex=41

If it does and the folder is not showing your custom icon, it is most likely caused by the loss of the read-only attribute for the folder. Use the 'attrib' command from a command prompt window to restore it.

If you are changing icons for various file extensions, that information is stored in the registry. If you want to retain those customizations after a format, you need to export the relevant registry entries from the customized setup and then merge those settings into the new registry created after a format.


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"Richard" <dandr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23L9bDeGxGHA.4416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
David

That's the way I am set up now but when I format I have to enter them all
over again. I was hoping to get around that by making the pictures
permanent.. Some icons have their own permanent picture. Thanks.



"Richard" <dandr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OpDk7I5wGHA.324@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Is there any way to install a picture on an icon so that it is permanent? Using the "properties\change icon" method does not hold after formatting and has to be reset.

Richard

Reformatting a hard drive seems to be quite extreme for correcting your problems.

I suspect a shortcut's pointer to its icon is contained within the shortcut. When I open a shortcut in a hex editor (the shortcut itself, not its target), I see a path to the shortcut's icon. Thus, when you reformat and wipe out your shortcuts, you also wipe out the pointers to the icons.

If reformatting is your only recourse, first backup just your shortcuts (identified as files with the .lnk extension) onto some other medium. After reformatting, restore your shortcuts. This will only work, however, if your icons are not on the disc that was reformatted unless you also backed-up your icons.

In my own case, I extract icons from various .exe, .dll, and other executables and save them, either individually as .ico files or grouped in dummy .dll files. All these icons are together -- along with icons (.ico files) that I created myself -- in an icon folder. I backup my icon folder regularly.

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