Broken icons from shell32.dll for shortcuts

Hullo,

Thanks for a great program, TLB is the best toolbar program I've ever used and it is essential for my day-to-day PC use (I keep one at the right-side of the screen always!)

I've had a problem though for some time now with shortcuts that use icons from shell32.dll, sometimes the icons will "not appear" for certain shortcuts, resulting in the appearance shown in the attached JPEG. It only seems to occur for shortcuts with icons from shell32.dll. Any ideas?

Kind regards,

{R}

What True Launch Bar version do you use? I think this bug was fixed

I guess the problem in the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons

This key contain the paths to icons that substitute the icons from shell32. If you delete the icons that don't exists, or everything from that key if you want to use standart icons then the problem must be fixed.

Perhaps there is another possibility. Perhaps your icon cache size is too small. You can look here for information on how to increase your icon cache size. Try a larger size and see what happens.

Q Section, thank you for link

{RainmakeR} Is this the shutdown plugin with in correct icon? If yes then my suggestion will help you 100%

What True Launch Bar version do you use? I think this bug was fixed

I guess the problem in the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons

This key contain the paths to icons that substitute the icons from shell32. If you delete the icons that don't exists, or everything from that key if you want to use standart icons then the problem must be fixed.

Hi Yuri,

I'm using TLB version 3.2.12 beta. I just looked for that key in regedit and I do not seem to have it. I have a "ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers" key, but that's the closest to it. :\

If you need any other info, please let me know how I can help.

Cheers,

{R}

Perhaps there is another possibility. Perhaps your icon cache size is too small. You can look here for information on how to increase your icon cache size. Try a larger size and see what happens.

Hmmm it seems I don't have the key mentioned on that page either, LOL... although the shots on that page look like a version of Windows older than XP.

Q Section, thank you for link

{RainmakeR} Is this the shutdown plugin with in correct icon? If yes then my suggestion will help you 100%

No, this is just a standard TLB menu with a shortcut to a .vbs script that controls the restart / shutdown (prompts first to confirm). You can see the problem in other menus as well, each time the broken icon occurs it is with a shortcut that uses an icon from shell32.dll. I've attached another example.

Cheers,

{R}

Do you use any "icons changers" software?

Also please can you post the screenshot of "Select Icon" dialog box when you change the icon for some of menu item with incorrect icon.

BTW is the icon is correct when you create the same shortcut on the desktop?

...Hmmm it seems I don't have the key mentioned on that page either, LOL... although the shots on that page look like a version of Windows older than XP.

{RainmakeR} - This is a link to instructions for XP Pro.

Do you use any "icons changers" software?

Also please can you post the screenshot of "Select Icon" dialog box when you change the icon for some of menu item with incorrect icon.

BTW is the icon is correct when you create the same shortcut on the desktop?

No icon changer software used, all that I've been doing with those TLB shortcuts is just creating a shortcut, and using the Appearance > Change Icon feature to change the icon to something from shell32.dll.

The shortcut icon is fine if I create the same shortcut on the desktop, though if I drag and copy one of the "broken icon" shortcuts from TLB to the desktop, the shortcut icon reverts back to the original one from the program the shortcut goes to.

I've attached a screenshot of the Select Icon dialog for the bottom most shortcut (with broken icon), notice how it's seemed to have "forgotten" which icon it's supposed to be displaying? The ones that work will highlight the selected icon and show "shell32.dll,17" or likewise at the bottom.

{RainmakeR}, please can you backup toolbar and send the backup file to <!-- e --><a href="mailtoupport@truelaunchbar.com">support@truelaunchbar.com</a><!-- e -->
I'll try to reproduce the bug with your configuration.

Yuri, any feedback on that toolbar backup I sent you?

Is this bug appear in the version 3.2.13?

I can't to reproduce this bug on my system even with your toolbar. I've found one small bug but not sure this fix the bug.

Hi Yuri,

I can verify that this bug still occurs in version 3.2.14 RC2. This was even after I changed the "broken" icons back to their original state - a few reboots later they were broken again.

Regards,

{R}