Shortcut overlay icon.

G'day,

Does anyone know what controls the overlay arrow for shortcuts?

I prefer the small arrow provided by Tweakui as opposed to the big
block default arrow and all 'was' looking fine untilled I updated my
IE5.5 (sr2) to IE6 (sr1). Now, no matter what I select, (normal,
small, none or custom) the gaudy default block arrow stays there.

Rebooting between changes makes no difference either.


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Australia isn't "down under", it's "off to one side"!


www.stanblaz.customer.netspace.net.au
www.cobracat.com (home of the Australian Cobra Catamaran)

I really can only suggest you give the idea away.
An old update disabled the feature and the work-rounds are a little
suspect.

FWIW,
Tasmania is down under Down Under

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, Stan Blazejewski
wrote:

G'day,

Does anyone know what controls the overlay arrow for shortcuts?

I prefer the small arrow provided by Tweakui as opposed to the big
block default arrow and all 'was' looking fine untilled I updated my
IE5.5 (sr2) to IE6 (sr1). Now, no matter what I select, (normal,
small, none or custom) the gaudy default block arrow stays there.

Rebooting between changes makes no difference either.


--

Australia isn't "down under", it's "off to one side"!

Keep your arrows, unless William Tell was your great grandfather. There
are times to know what you are dealing with, shortcut or no.
Furthermore, you are lucky all that happened is you lost your tweak.
Another possibility is that the update might have crashed, had the tweak
been more intrusive. There is a tweak that messes with "ISSHORTCUT" in
the Registry that causes mayhem. If you really don't like the look of
things, just try a new Theme or Scheme, and let those arrows be!


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Stan Blazejewski" wrote in message
...
| G'day,
|
| Does anyone know what controls the overlay arrow for shortcuts?
|
| I prefer the small arrow provided by Tweakui as opposed to the big
| block default arrow and all 'was' looking fine untilled I updated my
| IE5.5 (sr2) to IE6 (sr1). Now, no matter what I select, (normal,
| small, none or custom) the gaudy default block arrow stays there.
|
| Rebooting between changes makes no difference either.
|
|
| --
|
| Australia isn't "down under", it's "off to one side"!
|
|
| www.stanblaz.customer.netspace.net.au
| www.cobracat.com (home of the Australian Cobra Catamaran)

You can remove the arrow with Fresh UI
http://www.freshdevices.com/t/t/501/

"Stan Blazejewski" wrote in message
...
| G'day,
|
| Does anyone know what controls the overlay arrow for shortcuts?
|
| I prefer the small arrow provided by Tweakui as opposed to the big
| block default arrow and all 'was' looking fine untilled I updated my
| IE5.5 (sr2) to IE6 (sr1). Now, no matter what I select, (normal,
| small, none or custom) the gaudy default block arrow stays there.
|
| Rebooting between changes makes no difference either.
|
|
| --
|
| Australia isn't "down under", it's "off to one side"!
|
|
| www.stanblaz.customer.netspace.net.au
| www.cobracat.com (home of the Australian Cobra Catamaran)

Thanks for the replies,

It seems to be that an updated shell32.dll file (the 'actual' update
seems to vary depending on where you look/ who you listen to) so I
simply went to the root of the 'problem' & edited the icon within the
shell32.dll file (after making a suitable backup) .... It all worked
fine & I'm happy now.

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:48:12 +1000, Alan Edwards
wrote:

I really can only suggest you give the idea away.
An old update disabled the feature and the work-rounds are a little
suspect.

FWIW,
Tasmania is down under Down Under

...Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, Stan Blazejewski
wrote:

G'day,

Does anyone know what controls the overlay arrow for shortcuts?

I prefer the small arrow provided by Tweakui as opposed to the big
block default arrow and all 'was' looking fine untilled I updated my
IE5.5 (sr2) to IE6 (sr1). Now, no matter what I select, (normal,
small, none or custom) the gaudy default block arrow stays there.

Rebooting between changes makes no difference either.

--

Australia isn't "down under", it's "off to one side"!


www.stanblaz.customer.netspace.net.au
www.cobracat.com (home of the Australian Cobra Catamaran)

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:53:19 -0400, "PCR" wrote:

Keep your arrows, unless William Tell was your great grandfather. There
are times to know what you are dealing with, shortcut or no.
Furthermore, you are lucky all that happened is you lost your tweak.
Another possibility is that the update might have crashed, had the tweak
been more intrusive. There is a tweak that messes with "ISSHORTCUT" in
the Registry that causes mayhem. If you really don't like the look of
things, just try a new Theme or Scheme, and let those arrows be!

I don't what to loose the arrows, I just don't like the look of the
default/only one supplied by MS.

See my other message for my simple solution that I used.


--

Australia isn't "down under", it's "off to one side"!


www.stanblaz.customer.netspace.net.au
www.cobracat.com (home of the Australian Cobra Catamaran)

Stan Blazejewski wrote:

Thanks for the replies,

It seems to be that an updated shell32.dll file (the 'actual' update
seems to vary depending on where you look/ who you listen to) so I
simply went to the root of the 'problem' & edited the icon within the
shell32.dll file (after making a suitable backup) .... It all worked
fine & I'm happy now.


I don't remember seing the shortcut overlay looking any
different. What version have changed the appearance for you?

From the mouth of the horse:
http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/fileversion/dllinfo.asp
ver. 4.72.3612.1700 is the one in Win98SE up to and including
IE6SP1(for Win 4.10).

Strangly, i have ver. 4.72.3812.600 that isn't in the list! Don't
know where the hell that came from? The "Product Name" is so
informatively described, NOT!, as so often "Microsoft(R) Windows
NT(R) Operating System".

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E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control.

I suppose that better, to just edit the image. It's still messing with
system files, though. OK, then... provided the MVP's do not put to high
a price on your head, you're safe enough. OK, bye.


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Stan Blazejewski" wrote in message
...
| On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:53:19 -0400, "PCR" wrote:
|
| Keep your arrows, unless William Tell was your great grandfather.
There
| are times to know what you are dealing with, shortcut or no.
| Furthermore, you are lucky all that happened is you lost your tweak.
| Another possibility is that the update might have crashed, had the
tweak
| been more intrusive. There is a tweak that messes with "ISSHORTCUT"
in
| the Registry that causes mayhem. If you really don't like the look of
| things, just try a new Theme or Scheme, and let those arrows be!
|
| I don't what to loose the arrows, I just don't like the look of the
| default/only one supplied by MS.
|
| See my other message for my simple solution that I used.
|
|
| --
|
| Australia isn't "down under", it's "off to one side"!
|
|
| www.stanblaz.customer.netspace.net.au
| www.cobracat.com (home of the Australian Cobra Catamaran)

4.72.3812.600


On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:14:21 GMT, "... et al."
wrote:

Stan Blazejewski wrote:

Thanks for the replies,

It seems to be that an updated shell32.dll file (the 'actual' update
seems to vary depending on where you look/ who you listen to) so I
simply went to the root of the 'problem' & edited the icon within the
shell32.dll file (after making a suitable backup) .... It all worked
fine & I'm happy now.


I don't remember seing the shortcut overlay looking any
different. What version have changed the appearance for you?

The standard arrow has never changed, the different arrow was a
registry tweak provided by Tweakui (I 'think' one of MS's power toys)
& many other 3rd party tweaking software.

From the mouth of the horse:
http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/fileversion/dllinfo.asp
ver. 4.72.3612.1700 is the one in Win98SE up to and including
IE6SP1(for Win 4.10).

Strangly, i have ver. 4.72.3812.600 that isn't in the list! Don't
know where the hell that came from? The "Product Name" is so
informatively described, NOT!, as so often "Microsoft(R) Windows
NT(R) Operating System".


I have the same version (4.72.3812.600) & it's this version that stops
tweakui from setting the 'discrete' arrow instead of the standard
square box with a chunky arrow in it.


--

Australia isn't "down under", it's "off to one side"!


www.stanblaz.customer.netspace.net.au
www.cobracat.com (home of the Australian Cobra Catamaran)