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Shortcut Overlays?

March 22, 2004 5:36:55 AM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Does anyone know how to get rid of these things? I purposely get rid of them from my desktop through my registry...and when I apply a new skin the bloody things come back again, but only on a few icons. I did a search through my files to look for the little buggers but I think some are hiding.


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Reply #1 March 22, 2004 5:48:30 AM
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There is a program called TweakUI, that when running allows you to remove them.



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Reply #2 March 22, 2004 6:26:08 AM
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Stumpy: TweakUI does nothing else than changing that registry value he already changed. so do all the other tweaking utitilities. the problem is probably that IconPackager overwrites the hand-made changes when there is an overlay icon defined in a scheme.

solution one: do that registry change after you applied a scheme. (guess that´s what you are already doing)
solution two: edit a scheme before you apply it and change that overlay icon. maybe create yourself a blank icon with an icon editor for this purpose.
solution three: bug the developers to add a "no shortcut overlays" option to IconPackager. (might take a while)
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Reply #3 March 22, 2004 6:49:42 AM
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Although Tweak UI does do essentially the same thing as the hand edited registry changes, for some reason, having that option enabled in Tweak UI seems to prevent Icon Packager from undoing the change on my system. Since I installed and configured Tweak UI, my shortcut overlays have never come back, and I change icons a lot.
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Reply #4 March 22, 2004 7:59:23 AM
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Did all the registry tweaks...set the right settings in TweakUI...but the nasty little buggers keep coming back. I've been trying to locate all the shortcut overlay images, but some of them still elude me. Is there a standard file name for them or are some of them different? If they were all the same I could do a search and the little buggers.



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Reply #5 March 22, 2004 8:25:02 AM
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OK..Update...problem resolved...it seems that somehow the settings I made got changed in my TweakUI. Personally I think the sneaky little buggers got in there and changed my settings. > But honestly, is it at all possible that downloading a skin suite and applying it could change these settings? I think not, but stranger things have happened!



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