On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 04:51:04 -0700, "Yasoo"
| It sometimes shows the new icon and sometimes shows the
| old icon. How can I get it to show the new icon consistently?
You could try cleaning out the icon cache using a utility such as
Activicons -
http://www.simtel.net/product.download.mirrors.php?id=58875
To do this in ActivIcons, go to its "Desktop Controls" screen and
increase the icon cache size to 4096. Next, rebuild the icon cache.
The options for rebuilding the cache are on 2 small round buttons at
the lower/right corner. Shut down any programs running in the
background, then click the round button farthest to the lower/right
corner (your system will reboot, and the icon cache will be cleaned
out).
The other possibility I can imagine is if your icon only contains a
single image (most system icons contain several images of different
sizes and color depths). Since Windows picks the image which is
closest to the icon size and colors needed for a particular spot, it
may be picking something more suitable from the original icon. Adding
the other default sizes and colors to your icon might help
(
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_if_tips.html gives an example of how to
create an icon containing multiple images).
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