Shortcut icon missing in right-click NEW menu

[Stan Brown]

Win XP Pro, SP2

When I right-click and select NEW, "shortcut" is in the context
menu (and works), but in the menu there's a comma in place of the
icon. Visit
http://oakroadsystems.com/nonce/new.htm
for an ilustration. The shortcuts that I create do have icons.

How do I get back the icon in the context menu?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Stan,

The image is missing: http://oakroadsystems.com/nonce/new.htm
Looks like http://oakroadsystems.com/nonce/new.jpg is unavailable in the
server?

 

[WTC]

Win XP Pro, SP2

When I right-click and select NEW, "shortcut" is in the context
menu (and works), but in the menu there's a comma in place of the
icon. Visit
http://oakroadsystems.com/nonce/new.htm
for an ilustration. The shortcuts that I create do have icons.

How do I get back the icon in the context menu?

Did you use TweakUI and removed the Shortcut Overlay for Shortcuts?

 

[Stan Brown]

Did you use TweakUI and removed the Shortcut Overlay for Shortcuts?

I didn't remove it, but set it to "light arrow". That icon looks
like a comma to me, not the light arrow that I've actually got in
my shortcuts, but maybe it's my eyes.

 

[Stan Brown]

in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:

The image is missing: http://oakroadsystems.com/nonce/new.htm
Looks like http://oakroadsystems.com/nonce/new.jpg is unavailable in the
server?

Thanks for your reply. Here's what's going on with that.

I was having problems with other sites using my images in their
pages, so that my bandwidth usage went throgh the roof and I
started getting extra charged from my Web hoster. For financial
reasons I set things up that the images would only display in
context of my own pages.

Some firewalls (yours among them, apparently) fiddle with the HTTP-
Referer so it looks like the images are being requested directly
and not within the page. I don't know which firewall you're using,
but perhaps there's a setting that can be fixed.

If you can give me more information, I'd be grateful. Most people
have no trouble with the pages, but I do get an occasonal trouble
report. So far the only advice I've been able to give is t turn off
the firewall temporarily, and obviously that's not an ideal
solution even though it works.

 

[WTC]

in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:


I didn't remove it, but set it to "light arrow". That icon looks
like a comma to me, not the light arrow that I've actually got in
my shortcuts, but maybe it's my eyes.

After I configured the option to a light arrow, it sort of does look like a
comma with a screen resolution of 1024 X 768.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

I had to disable "Remove private header informaiton" in ZA. Well, it's
caused by setting the shortcut overlay icon using Tweak UI.

 

[Stan Brown]

After I configured the option to a light arrow, it sort of does look like a
comma with a screen resolution of 1024 X 768.

I think you've put your finger on it! I do have 1024x768
resolution, and at the moment when I click on that selection the
"comma" does look a tiny bit like a light arrow.

Thanks -- mystery solved!

 

[Stan Brown]

in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:

I had to disable "Remove private header informaiton" in ZA. Well, it's
caused by setting the shortcut overlay icon using Tweak UI.

Thanks for the data!

 

[WTC]

in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:

I think you've put your finger on it! I do have 1024x768
resolution, and at the moment when I click on that selection the
"comma" does look a tiny bit like a light arrow.

Thanks -- mystery solved!

You're welcome.