Desktop Icon
Thursday, February 24, 2005 by hawk_196 | Discussion: IconPackager
Hi guys.
It seems for me, the desktop icon usually on the left side of the windows explorer at times never gets skinned. The other options (Recent, My Documents, My Computer, etc.) always get skinned, but the Desktop icon never seems to be. I see it skinned sometimes when I'm using a Stardock product to browse for a file (i.e. selecting an icon for objectdock). Also, it uaually never gets skinned in the drop down menus either.
I'm running Win2kPro if that helps at all.
Thanks.
It seems for me, the desktop icon usually on the left side of the windows explorer at times never gets skinned. The other options (Recent, My Documents, My Computer, etc.) always get skinned, but the Desktop icon never seems to be. I see it skinned sometimes when I'm using a Stardock product to browse for a file (i.e. selecting an icon for objectdock). Also, it uaually never gets skinned in the drop down menus either.
I'm running Win2kPro if that helps at all.
Thanks.
Corky_O
Reply #2 Sunday, April 24, 2005 10:06 AM
Reply #2 Sunday, April 24, 2005 10:06 AM
I believe this is just a current limitation in IconPackager (it may be due to an access issue with those instances of the "desktop" icon).
I have heard that the "Enhanced Dialog" program (which can be seen in SDC if you have ObjectDesktop) enables this icon to be changed in the explorer windows that do not currently change - but I have not used this program, so I cannot tell you whether this works or, whether this program uninstalls cleanly without leaving changes behind.
Hopefully someone with a better explanation will drop by.
I have heard that the "Enhanced Dialog" program (which can be seen in SDC if you have ObjectDesktop) enables this icon to be changed in the explorer windows that do not currently change - but I have not used this program, so I cannot tell you whether this works or, whether this program uninstalls cleanly without leaving changes behind.
Hopefully someone with a better explanation will drop by.
thomassen
Reply #3 Sunday, April 24, 2005 1:11 PM
It's not IP that has limitations, it's sometimes that the program doesn't actually query for what icons to use, instead it simply uses the default ones. Lazy programming, but not from SD's side.
Reply #3 Sunday, April 24, 2005 1:11 PM
| I believe this is just a current limitation in IconPackager (it may be due to an access issue with those instances of the "desktop" icon) |
It's not IP that has limitations, it's sometimes that the program doesn't actually query for what icons to use, instead it simply uses the default ones. Lazy programming, but not from SD's side.
Thomas Bonneau
Reply #4 Monday, July 25, 2005 10:24 PM
Reply #4 Monday, July 25, 2005 10:24 PM
I have this same problem as first poster. Very odd. Sometimes it works fine in some "Open" windows, but usually it does not skin properly. A minor quibble, but when you are taking hours to tweak icons bc you are insane, its a hassle!
Hopefully someone has a better answer, or a later version of IP will correct this.
Hopefully someone has a better answer, or a later version of IP will correct this.
Thomas Bonneau
Reply #5 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:26 AM
Reply #5 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:26 AM
Well, some good news if any of you guys are still following this post....
I solved the problem. Simply go to this page and follow the directions, its pretty easy. Involves fiddling with a .dll file if you aren't scared to do that, wasn't a big deal for me.
TweakXP.com - Change any system icon
http://www.tweakxp.com/article36842.aspx
Good luck!
I solved the problem. Simply go to this page and follow the directions, its pretty easy. Involves fiddling with a .dll file if you aren't scared to do that, wasn't a big deal for me.
TweakXP.com - Change any system icon
http://www.tweakxp.com/article36842.aspx
Good luck!
hawk_196
Reply #6 Sunday, August 7, 2005 2:41 PM
Reply #6 Sunday, August 7, 2005 2:41 PM
OR you could go get IP 3.0 which seemed to fix the problem. Good Job Stardock!
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Reply #1 Sunday, April 24, 2005 9:30 AM
Also Thanks!