Alex Clark
7/24/2008 6:31:00 PM
Hi Zhi-xin,
I tried your "solution 1" for clearing the icon cache (never knew that
little trick existed for exiting explorer, nice!) and it had the following
results:
1) It *did* work for my .exe - the large icon displayed perfectly straight
afterwards on the desktop and in the folder window
2) It does *not* appear to have worked for the .ico file. Interestingly, I
also have a shortcut to my app on the desktop and that doesn't display the
large icon either, however that was created during a Windows Installer setup
from before I altered the icon in my app, so I'm wondering if the installer
keeps its own copy of the icon somewhere when it creates that shortcut?
Thanks,
Alex
"Alex Clark" <quanta@noemail.noemail> wrote in message
news:en5L6ob7IHA.2336@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi Zhi-xin,
>
> This is the weirdest thing, but it's stopped working altogether now!
>
> I have created my .ico file and I have followed your guidelines. In my
> .ico file, I have:
>
> 256x256x32bit, PNG
> 128x128x32bit, PNG
> 64x64x32bit, no compression
> 64x64 256 colors, no compression
> 48x48 256 colors, no compression
> 32x32 256 colors, no compression
> 16x16 256 colors, no compression
>
> Now, either as a .ico file or embedded as my application's main icon, I
> cannot get it to display as a large icon. This is now happening either on
> the Vista desktop or in a folder window!
>
> I feel like maybe I changed something with the .ico file, but I can't
> think what?
>
> Does it make a difference that I'm on Vista Ultimate RTM and not SP1?
>
> Kind regards,
> Alex
>
>
>
> "Zhi-xin Ye" <v-zhye@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1ZeY3%23K7IHA.1624@TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl...
>> Dear Alex,
>>
>> I don't think Vista's treatment of .ico files is different to .exe files
>> in
>> terms of displaying large icons on the desktop.
>>
>> As I tested with both solutions I posted in my last reply on many Vista
>> machines, they all work fine.
>>
>> Have you tried my solution 1? Maybe keeping the Windows Explorer off
>> while
>> deleting the IconCache.db file would make some differences.
>>
>> You can also try my solutions on another Vista machine or another account
>> to see whether this problem still exist or not.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to hearing from you soon!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Zhi-Xin Ye
>> Microsoft Managed Newsgroup Support Team
>>
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