Last we left our humble hero, he was installing 100+ apps on his new ThinkPad and working on configuring many of them. The good news is I am mostly done and on my self-imposed pre-conference moratorium of not installing new applications with OzFox only 10 days away.
I have come up against a little glitch I have never seen before with a new machine. It is not a show stopper by any stretch of the imagination, but one that is irritating me every day. In my Windows Quick Launch toolbar I have short cuts to different versions of VFP. The weird thing is the VFP icon is the VFP 7 icon, not the VFP 8/9 icon for the VFP 8 and VFP 9 shortcuts. Even the icons for the VFP8.EXE and VFP9.EXE files are the older foxhead in Windows Explorer. Why?
If I try to change the icons in the shortcut properties I see all the icons inside of the VFP executable and the old foxhead is there, not the new foxhead. It smells of a registry problem, but I am not sure where to even start.
Has anyone else experienced this? I know I can use my own icons, but it would be nice not to workaround the issue if possible.
It could be an issue with the icon cache being full. KB132668 has the details. I had this problem on a Win2K machine, and increasing max icons fixed it. Personally I’ve not seen the problem on WinXP (which is what I assume you’re using), but the KB says the solution applies to XP as well.
-RB
Sure enough Rick Borup is a genius! Following his wise advice I hit the KB article and it recommends switching the color depth from 32-bit to 16-bit and back again.
My new machine was set at 16-bit to start (not sure what Lenovo was thinking when they made this selection). I switched it to 32-bit and BINGO I have the proper foxheads. What a relief.
Thanks Rick, it is nice to know I have so many smart friends.