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Ernest M. Montavon - 23 Sep 2005 23:40 GMT

Some Icons change when copied from Desk top to Quick launch toolbar. When I
open the quick launch folder all icons in the folder are the same as
displayed on the Desktop. The icons change when dragged from desk top to
quick launch toolbar. Anybody know why?
Tia,
Emark

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chris - 23 Sep 2005 23:53 GMT

They change because the same sized icon can not be displayed in the quick
launch menu.....

> Some Icons change when copied from Desk top to Quick launch toolbar. When I
> open the quick launch folder all icons in the folder are the same as
> displayed on the Desktop. The icons change when dragged from desk top to
> quick launch toolbar. Anybody know why?
> Tia,
> Emark

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Ernest M. Montavon - 24 Sep 2005 00:16 GMT

Chris,
Thanks for responding. But why should the size have anything to do with the
icon displayed. I have 16 icons displayed on the quick launch toolbar.
Four change when
dragged from desktop. They all have the same size when the folder is
opened.
Emark

> They change because the same sized icon can not be displayed in the quick
> launch menu.....
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> > Tia,
> > Emark

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Jeff Richards - 24 Sep 2005 01:06 GMT

Use a resource editor to have a look at the icons embedded in the
application. You should find that the application uses different icons at
different sizes. The usual reason is that the features of the large icons
don't display well at small sizes, so the icons are redrawn so that they are
still recognizable.

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> Chris,
> Thanks for responding. But why should the size have anything to do with
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> dragged from desktop. They all have the same size when the folder is
> opened.

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Ernest M. Montavon - 24 Sep 2005 03:42 GMT

Jeff,
Thanks. I just displayed the icons displayed in the Quick Launch folder as
small icons and they are identical to the icons on my QL toolbar.
Emark

> Use a resource editor to have a look at the icons embedded in the
> application. You should find that the application uses different icons at
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> > dragged from desktop. They all have the same size when the folder is
> > opened.

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chris - 24 Sep 2005 05:01 GMT

16 icons in the quick launch task bar? Wow! Do you actually use all 16? I
have all of 8...and that seems plenty for me.

I guess a helpful tip would be for you to go through each one of those icons
and find out which applications you don't use to often and then to delete
the icons. Remember, the fewer icons you have on the desktop and in the
quick launch window, the FFFFAAAASSSSTTTTEEEERRRR Windows will run!

> > > Chris,
> > > Thanks for responding. But why should the size have anything to do with
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> > > dragged from desktop. They all have the same size when the folder is
> > > opened.

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glee - 26 Sep 2005 06:14 GMT

Delete the shelliconcache file from Safe Mode, per the instructions here:

Icons Displayed Incorrectly in Control Panel:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=133733

Or,
Click Start>Settings> Control Panel> Display> Appearance tab:
Click the "Item:" drop-down list and select "Icon"
Note the current icon size in the "Size:" box next to that.
Change the size, click Apply.
Change the size back to what it was, click OK.

Or,
If you have TweakUI installed, click Start> Settings> Control Panel> TweakUI>
"Repair" tab, select "Rebuild Icons" and click Repair Now.

Download and install TweakUI1.33:
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/powertoys/networking/nttweakui.asp
Follow the installation instructions on that web page.

Following that, setting the Max Icon Cache setting in the Registry to 2048 would be
good preventive practice:
http://www.aumha.org/regfiles.htm
Scroll to 'IconCache Fix', download, unzip, then right-click the enclosed .reg file,
click Merge on the menu that appears, and OK to the confirmation message.

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> Jeff,
> Thanks. I just displayed the icons displayed in the Quick Launch folder as
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> > > dragged from desktop. They all have the same size when the folder is
> > > opened.

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