I'm having the same damn problem. Can't get any of the icon packages to install the normal way. Have to extract them to a different folder and apply each one that way. Thats what i have been doing. Sucks tho.

Just found the fix for the problem by doing a google search for sdczip.dll. The fix can be found at http://sd.stardock.com/mike/apps/fixup_sdczip.bat. Download and run the batch file to add an entry to your registry. It works. IconPackager now working beautifully.

I had to reinstall icon packer again after a harddrive wipe. While downloading iconpacker through the stardock central I got an error message near the end. At the point where it was applying install actions. The error was "Application path not found. Please run the application setup again to correct this problem". I clicked ok and it finishes, activates the product & then says successfully installed?
It then says, do you want to run the application?
I assumed from the error message it wanted me to uninstall & try reinstalling. I did this three times with the same error message each time & then it successfully finishes. IT seems to me a kind of contradiction. Please run the application setup again/ Sucessfully installed? Was it successful & if so, why the error in to run the application again?
I am afraid to just leave it in my computer like that. I do not want to have to reinstall windows again down the road because of it.

Rick Downey

this is one of a few problems that I have brought to Frogboys attention...Hopefully they are working on it, but I havent heard anything yet!

I have tried the sdczip.bat and Icon Packegar still will not load any ip packages.

Help??

I am having the same trouble. I have purchased Icon Packager, and I get the same error message "Error: Failed to SDCZip.dll. Please reinstall the application to correct this problem." I have reinstalled the program itself, and also tried the http://sd.stardock.com/mike/apps/fixup_sdczip.bat option. Altho when clicking on that link, I just get a page that says:
@echo off

set url=http://sd.stardock.com/mike/files/sdczip.dll

echo Adding SDCzip value to registry . . .
reg add HKLM\Software\Stardock\ObjectDesktop /v SDCzip /t REG_SZ /d "%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Stardock\SDCzip.dll"
echo.
echo SDCzip value added to registry!
start "" /WAIT /D"%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Stardock" "%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "%url%"
pause


Yet I still cannot install new icon packages. Is there something I am doing wrong? I do not understand why I cannot install new icons into the program. If anyone can please help, I would greatly appreciate it.

When I copy/paste the url into my address bar and click enter, just a page with that text comes up, and that's all that occurs. I'm beginning to worry that I spent $15 on a program I am unable to use for some reason, and I am not sure how I should proceed. (

Aaaah!! That's what I was doing wrong! I was using Firefox, but when i did it in IE, it worked perfectly. And now, the program seems to be running perfectly! Altho my PC locks up after i apply a new icon package and I have to restart, I am happy it works anyway.
Thank you so very much sincerely!! I greatly appreciate it!

I tried the batch file as well, no dice. Problem as it turned out was this batch file is assuming you need the 32bit DLL... However, Im on x64 and that's why it's telling me I need the SDCZip64.dll. It's no big problem however... just change the batch file to:

@echo off

set url=http://sd.stardock.com/mike/files/sdczip64.dll

echo Adding SDCzip value to registry . . .
reg add HKLM\Software\Stardock\ObjectDesktop /v SDCzip /t REG_SZ /d "%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Stardock\SDCzip64.dll"
echo.
echo SDCzip value added to registry!
start "" /WAIT /D"%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Stardock" "%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "%url%"
pause


I would assume this only works for x64 flavors of WindowsXP... haven't tried it on anything else. This fixed the problem for me, hope it helps others.