Re: 2 Tweak UI prob: Wrong icons and no search

[Thorsten Matzner]

lklawless > wrote:

>I installed Tweak UI on my xp puter a week or two ago, and I'm having two problems.

TweakUI is a Registry editor, so if the problems started after you
installed it you just should undo the settings you made in TweakUI to
find out if they are the cause.

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[+-J]

"lklawless" > wrote:
| Hi again -
|
| I followed your instructions step by step, twice - no change. I guess I'm SOL. Thanks so much for trying to help. :-)
|
| I have a Dell laptop.

Hi lklawless,

Try ...

1)-[Start]
| Run |
SFC /SCANNOW
[Enter]

-or-

2)- System Restore to a previous known good point

-or-

3)- Repair Instal of XP

-or-

4)- Get rid of the "Dell Media Experience"

-or-

5)- if you had a nVidea graphics card you could try disabling the "NVIDIA Driver Helper Service"...

[Start]
| Run |
services.msc
[Enter]

In the Services (Local) list,
right-click "NVIDIA Driver Helper Service"
and then click [Stop].

When "Service Status:" = "Stopped",
change "Startup Type:" to [ Disabled ]
[OK]


You might need to do this first...

Control Panel
NVIDIA Desktop Helper
[Disable nView]
[OK]

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Jan

[+-J]

"lklawless" > wrote:
| Hi -
|
| I installed Tweak UI on my xp puter a week or two ago, and I'm having two problems.
|
| One is that my .htm icons are displayed as this ugly default on both my desktop and in explorer, and there is no way to change
them. If I try to change them in Win Explorer, I can pick a different icon and the system actually remembers it in that dialog
screen, but nothing changes. On my desktop, a right-click does not give me any option to change the icon. I've tried the "repair
icons" feature of Tweak UI several times - no effect.

Download the file "iconfix.reg" from
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Line 4. Repairs the Icon View

Then double-click the file "iconfix.reg", and follow the prompts.


| The other problem is that I no longer have search capability in Win Explorer. The Search button is there, but nothing happens when
I click on it. I can't say for sure that this happened with Tweak UI, since I don't use the search feature very often, but I'm
pretty sure it did.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_s.htm
(Search - Doesn't Work)

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
(Line 148. Set All Search Options to Active )

|
| Any ideas? thanks!

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Jan

[+-J]

"lklawless" > wrote:
| Hi Jan,
|
| Thanks very much for your response. Unfortunately, the icon solution did not work - the only noticeable difference was that my
icon option was reset to small. The htm icons are still that weird default - white page with colored dots all over. Any other ideas?

Hi Lklawless,

From your previous post...

|> my .htm icons are displayed as this ugly default on both my desktop and in explorer, and there is no way to change
them. If I try to change them in Win Explorer, I can pick a different icon and the system actually remembers it in that dialog
screen, but nothing changes.

The following works for me, in this sequence...

1)-
Windows Explorer
Tools-menu
Folder Options
"Registered file types" [ HTM ]
[Advanced]
[Change Icon]
[OK]... all the way back.

2)-
Close all instances of Windows Explorer

3)-
TweakUI for XP (SP1)
- Repair
- Repair Icons
- [Repair Now]

4)-
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Line 4. Repairs the Icon View

5)-
Refresh the Desktop

6)-
It may help to try this...

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Line 30. (Windows XP Doesn't Save User Settings)

Do you have a Dell PC, or is your graphics card nVidia?


|> On my desktop, a right-click does not give me any option to change the icon.
....same here,

Change the icon for *all* .HTM files via step (1), above.
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Jan