catnipbear
1st April 2002 14:59 UTC

Reloading explorer
Hi all,

I have an NSIS install package that registers a couple of icons and a font. Problem is, it appears that I need to restart explorer to get windows to start using the icons and font.

My question: Is there any command that I can run to tell explorer to reload it's font and icon lists without restarting it?

Thanks,

Bryan

Yathosho
1st April 2002 18:23 UTC

can't you simply close and re-open the explorer? there were posts about how to close running programs in this forums, just check them.

catnipbear
1st April 2002 19:29 UTC

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm talking about the main explorer process that controls the desktop. Killing this will cause the start bar and everything to disappear.

Bryan

kichik
1st April 2002 21:00 UTC

Hi!

I don't quite understand the icons problem. How can you register icons? Aren't they just regular files? If you can please more specific I can try to help...

<edit> I am not quite sure that this is what you are looking for but have a look at this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...angenotify.asp
</edit>

About the fonts question, here is a post you might find useful:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....threadid=79586

KiCHiK