Archive: Start menu icon!
Start menu icon!
My application has an icon in it, and it shows up fine on the desktop and in the quick launch menu. But on the start menu it doesn't show, but the icon for the uninstaller does. And if I open the program group from the start menu into an explorer window the icon shows fine there. This oddity under Vista, haven't tried it on XP.
Any ideas?:confused:
might be an icon cache issue
hi,
i've also win vista and my experience with vista are very very bad. the last time i found that huge amount of bugs was on win me.
ok, back to your problem.
the magic word could be "Max cached Icons" if my previous speaker has right with his assertion. search for "IconCache.db" make a backup, delete it and restart win vista.
you can do also modify your registry. go on start-button - run and type in regedit. now go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer and add a new string named "Max Cached Icons" then doubleclick on "Max Cached Icons" and set the value e.g. 512, 1024, 4096 or 8192. i think this should be megabytes cache but i'm not sure with that. after that jsut reboot your machine and now it could work as you wanted it.
the other possibility could be the icons you use for your progam. Notice that vista uses icons in another way as win xp do it. you find in your *.ico pictures as follows:
256x256 - 32 (compressed only on vista)
48x48 - 32
32x32 - 32
16x16 - 32
256x256 - 256 (compressed only on vista)
48x48 - 256
32x32 - 256
16x16 - 256
256x256 - 16 (compressed only on vista)
48x48 - 16
32x32 - 16
16x16 - 16
a shareware program and tutorial can be found here: http://www.axialis.com/tutorials/tutorial-iw023.html. my thought was that for e.g. one of four pictures is missing, but to be honest i think my first advise was the one your are looking for.
on my vista this was all i need to get my icons (selfmade):
!define MUI_ICON "${NSISDIR}\Contrib\MUI Orange Vista Theme\${OMUI_THEME}\install.ico"
!define MUI_UNICON "${NSISDIR}\Contrib\MUI Orange Vista Theme\${OMUI_THEME}\uninstall.ico"
you see its not impossible. i think its just a bug in your vista if its isn't a feature from ms!