Re: Shortcut icon missing in right-click NEW menu

From: Stan Brown (the_stan_brown_at_fastmail.fm)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:56:25 -0500

"" wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:
>"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
>news:38d114F5msnqqU2@individual.net...
>> Win XP Pro, SP2
>>
>> When I right-click and select NEW, "shortcut" is in the context
>> menu (and works), but in the menu there's a comma in place of the
>> icon. Visit
>> http://oakroadsystems.com/nonce/new.htm
>> for an ilustration. The shortcuts that I create do have icons.
>>
>> How do I get back the icon in the context menu?

>Did you use TweakUI and removed the Shortcut Overlay for Shortcuts?

I didn't remove it, but set it to "light arrow". That icon looks
like a comma to me, not the light arrow that I've actually got in
my shortcuts, but maybe it's my eyes. 

-- 
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
                                  http://OakRoadSystems.com/

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