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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. -- 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) |
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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"! |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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". -- Please followup in newsgroup. E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control. |
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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) |
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