LNKs to MSDOS programs have generic icons

[Frank Haber]

Vista 32 HP here. All my desktop shortcuts to my MSDOS apps show generic
white "document" icons. The proper icons (from the usual sources,
MORICONS.DLL, etc.) display fine in the properties page of the shortcut.
What's going on?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Frank,

Try rebuilding the icon cache, see:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Frank Haber]

I'd already done the color-depth and delete-iconcache fiddles, with no result.
It's only MSDOS programs. I gather it's not a general problem? Any other
ideas?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Frank,

Nothing immediately comes to mind. Are there other accounts on this machine
and does the same thing happen in them? I'd also look to video drivers, and
try switching to a different source to see if the problem lies in the .dll
file.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Frank Haber]

(BTW, for those lurking in Redmond, this is a vanilla Dell SP1 build of Home
Premium. And it's otherwise pleasantly crisper and more solid than I remember
RTM was last year.)

The problem's there in another (low-priv) acct. on this machine, as well.
Same prob. when I draw the icons from SHELL32 - displays on the
properties/choose_icon page, but not on the desktop or in Explorer list or
details. I guess file this one away, until another fossil comes along with
MSDOS or Win16 needs.

BTW, some of these forums are billed in web view as "moderated." In NNTP
view, there's plenty of noise. I haven't tried webforum view. Is that
cleaner? If this is OT, where should I ask?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

This is NNTP and is unmoderated, but there are plenty of web forums that
slurp content to/from here and clean it up. I don't care for them, but they
do have their benefits.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Frank Haber]

Only Mr. R. Chen may fully understand this antiquarian report. Problem ==
msg_title.

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The following may be apropos to this thread.... Found in Vista Error
Reporting... I could not fully access this dump in ControlPanel|Classic, to
which I can only say, grrrrr...

This .lnk, formerly a .pif in another life, runs as Win98Compat. BTW, the
program, a former TSR jiggered to run as an EXE, works fine. Bravo Win16
layer.

Product
IS N.pif

Problem
Program Compatibility

Date
6/29/2008 1:53 PM

Status
Not Reported

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: PCA2
Problem Signature 01: IS N.pif
Problem Signature 02: 0.0.0.0
Problem Signature 03: IS N.pif
Problem Signature 04: unknown
Problem Signature 05: unknown
Problem Signature 06: 200
Problem Signature 07: -1
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Files that help describe the problem
appcompat.txt
TabE509.tmp (contains only "Win98"

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[Frank Haber]

And, for completeness, in the better_late_than_never dept.: Raymond Chen did
indeed have the answer. WAD, dammit.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc462815.aspx