IconPackager broke lots of icons
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 by SENTiNEL | Discussion: Stardock Support General
Hi 
Installed IconPackager 4.09[b].003 (x86) via Impulse (Off Topic: Nice piece of software!), and now lot's of my icons are broken i.e. I don't have the default icon for say, as an example, World of Warcraft, it's the default icon; didn't explain that so well, but has anyone else encountered this?
I can post screenshots if that will help? Running Vista and just upgraded my GFX card so I know that's not the problem - the joy of running Beta software I guess.
Any suggestions most welcome!
Astyanax
Reply #2 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:17 PM
Reply #2 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:17 PM
Err no edit button.
That should resolve the icon issue, I would suggest trying the newest official release once its all sorted.
That should resolve the icon issue, I would suggest trying the newest official release once its all sorted.
Phoon
Reply #3 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:28 PM
Reply #3 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:28 PM
Hmm.. I had an issue of when I uninstalled IP it broke SEVERAL icons. The only way to fix it was to re-install IP and leave it on.
Stardock's official response: re-install OS.
Well, I had to reinstall my OS for other reasons a few weeks later.
IP is on my permanent black-list now.
Stardock's official response: re-install OS.
Well, I had to reinstall my OS for other reasons a few weeks later.
IP is on my permanent black-list now.
Astyanax
Reply #4 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:44 PM
You could always go to System32 and make a backup of the imageres.dll
Reply #4 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:44 PM
Hmm.. I had an issue of when I uninstalled IP it broke SEVERAL icons. The only way to fix it was to re-install IP and leave it on.
Stardock's official response: re-install OS.
Well, I had to reinstall my OS for other reasons a few weeks later.
IP is on my permanent black-list now.
Stardock's official response: re-install OS.
Well, I had to reinstall my OS for other reasons a few weeks later.
IP is on my permanent black-list now.
You could always go to System32 and make a backup of the imageres.dll
Phoon
Reply #5 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:17 PM
Vista Ultimate x64
Reply #5 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:17 PM
You could always go to System32 and make a backup of the imageres.dll
Vista Ultimate x64
Astyanax
Reply #6 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:44 PM
Yup, it'll work on there too.
If you didn't know with Vista x64 there is a folder mixup, the folders are System32 and SysWOW64 when they should actually be named System64 and SysWOW32.
So in other words, System32=64 bit - SysWOW64=32 bit - So backing up the imageres.dll in System32 will work, or do it for both if you want to be 100% safe.
I too use 64 bit
Reply #6 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:44 PM
Vista Ultimate x64
Yup, it'll work on there too.
If you didn't know with Vista x64 there is a folder mixup, the folders are System32 and SysWOW64 when they should actually be named System64 and SysWOW32.
So in other words, System32=64 bit - SysWOW64=32 bit - So backing up the imageres.dll in System32 will work, or do it for both if you want to be 100% safe.
I too use 64 bit
Phoon
Reply #7 Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:03 AM
Reply #7 Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:03 AM
I appreciate the tidbit Astyanax. I'm still hesitant to try it though because frankly I don't want to have to reinstall my os should that solution fail.
It's a paradox issue. If I were just going to uninstall IP, why install it in the first place?, but on the other hand there may be occasions when one needs to uninstall it for breakfixing.
In either case, I'm not at all real happy about a piece of software that forces you to reinstall your OS if you uninstall it. Of all the years I've used this software I am completely astonished at this type of activity.
It's a paradox issue. If I were just going to uninstall IP, why install it in the first place?, but on the other hand there may be occasions when one needs to uninstall it for breakfixing.
In either case, I'm not at all real happy about a piece of software that forces you to reinstall your OS if you uninstall it. Of all the years I've used this software I am completely astonished at this type of activity.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:13 PM
I've had this issue when uninstalling IP through Impulse on more than one occasion.