Jeffrey R. Broido
December 5th 03, 12:09 AM
Folks,
I recently lost my registry due to an Explorer crash. In the process of
rebuilding, Explorer lost the ability to display cursors as cursors and, rather,
displays them either as the default icon or the icon of an associated program. I
can no longer select my mouse pointers in the mouse properties dialog as all of
the static cursors look the same (the default icon, etc.). Please look at what I
just posted on the site supporting the associated program's newsgroup and, if you
can, help me patch my registry to make this work again. Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Jeff
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Folks,
Following a Windows XP Pro crash involving an Explorer crash (thumbnail
size set to 150x150 and thumbnail quality set to best, particular folder, etc.),
and an attempt to change the view of the offending folder, I lost the user portion
of my registry. I have no restore points due to a Windows bug involving a
Highpoint RAID controller, so I've been rebuilding everything.
Of course, PSP 8.0 Beta 7 lost all of its registry entries. I
re-installed it and attempted to associate all possible file types with PSP 8.
The first problem I noticed was that associations for PC Paint files (.pic) and
all types below in the file association list in PSP 8 prefrerences were, upon
reinvocation of PSP 8, unchecked. Despite this, the associations were, indeed
set. If I un-set them all, and just set those below this phantom line, they
remain apparently set (though, as I noted, they remain set in any case even when
apparently unset when viewed in the pull-down list).
Then, when I went to set-up my mouse pointers again (of course, they were
lost when my registry was reset to factory defaults), I found that in the mouse
properties dialog, when I browsed the cursor folder (or any other, for that
matter), while the .ani cursors displayed properly, the static (.cur) cursors
showed-up as PSP 8 icons. At this point, I played around with PSP 8 Beta 7 some
more, un-associating everything. Still, the cursor files were associated with PSP
8 and they still weren't visible in the cursor selection dialog in the mouse
properties dialog. I looked at another, healthy Windows XP system and found that
both .cur and .ani were listed in the Windows file association list, but
associated with no icon and, even more peculiar, no program. When I duplicated
this on the sick system, the cursors still are not displayed, but the icon for
each is now the default and not PSP 8.
My next step is to go into the registry on the healthy system and see if I
can find some setting for .cur which is not settable in the standard file
association dialog.
But the fact remains that, following a repair install of PSP 8.0 Beta 7,
my file associations are most definitely hosed and the fact remains that PSP 8's
own file association dialog isn't working properly, at least not on my system.
Does anyone have any ideas?
_____________________________________
Jeffrey R. Broido, Morristown, NJ USA
"No Statements Flagged in this Assembly"
I recently lost my registry due to an Explorer crash. In the process of
rebuilding, Explorer lost the ability to display cursors as cursors and, rather,
displays them either as the default icon or the icon of an associated program. I
can no longer select my mouse pointers in the mouse properties dialog as all of
the static cursors look the same (the default icon, etc.). Please look at what I
just posted on the site supporting the associated program's newsgroup and, if you
can, help me patch my registry to make this work again. Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Jeff
___________________________________
Folks,
Following a Windows XP Pro crash involving an Explorer crash (thumbnail
size set to 150x150 and thumbnail quality set to best, particular folder, etc.),
and an attempt to change the view of the offending folder, I lost the user portion
of my registry. I have no restore points due to a Windows bug involving a
Highpoint RAID controller, so I've been rebuilding everything.
Of course, PSP 8.0 Beta 7 lost all of its registry entries. I
re-installed it and attempted to associate all possible file types with PSP 8.
The first problem I noticed was that associations for PC Paint files (.pic) and
all types below in the file association list in PSP 8 prefrerences were, upon
reinvocation of PSP 8, unchecked. Despite this, the associations were, indeed
set. If I un-set them all, and just set those below this phantom line, they
remain apparently set (though, as I noted, they remain set in any case even when
apparently unset when viewed in the pull-down list).
Then, when I went to set-up my mouse pointers again (of course, they were
lost when my registry was reset to factory defaults), I found that in the mouse
properties dialog, when I browsed the cursor folder (or any other, for that
matter), while the .ani cursors displayed properly, the static (.cur) cursors
showed-up as PSP 8 icons. At this point, I played around with PSP 8 Beta 7 some
more, un-associating everything. Still, the cursor files were associated with PSP
8 and they still weren't visible in the cursor selection dialog in the mouse
properties dialog. I looked at another, healthy Windows XP system and found that
both .cur and .ani were listed in the Windows file association list, but
associated with no icon and, even more peculiar, no program. When I duplicated
this on the sick system, the cursors still are not displayed, but the icon for
each is now the default and not PSP 8.
My next step is to go into the registry on the healthy system and see if I
can find some setting for .cur which is not settable in the standard file
association dialog.
But the fact remains that, following a repair install of PSP 8.0 Beta 7,
my file associations are most definitely hosed and the fact remains that PSP 8's
own file association dialog isn't working properly, at least not on my system.
Does anyone have any ideas?
_____________________________________
Jeffrey R. Broido, Morristown, NJ USA
"No Statements Flagged in this Assembly"