Why are the default large Icons showing up when I switch the tile view to medium or large

Published on February 2, 2008 By shawnjam In Personal Computing

Like the title says...When I install an icon package using icon packager it does not install the medium, large or extra large icons. If I view the folders using small icons the installed icons show up but when I switch the view to medium, large or extra large the icons are all the default (the old school yellow folder icons). I tried going into icon packager and doing a rebuild cache then repair icon images the icons will change to the correct installed icons for a couple of seconds but then they will change back automaticly. I also noticed that my icon packages are being downloaded to c:\public\public documents\stardock\iconpackager and c:\program file\stardock\object Desktop\IconPackager\Themes im not sure if this is a problem or not. Which one is the used directory? I'm running vista 32 and have all the lastest updates from stardock central and vista.

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shawnjam

on Feb 03, 2008

Okay after some digging around I figured it out. If you go to Tools-->Folder Options then click the view tab then check "Always show icons, never thumbnails. This will show the installed icons weather you select the view to be small, medium, large or extra large. The only downfall is that all you picture files including icons, wallpapers, ect... will show up as a default icon instead of that neat preview image. Bummer. Guess I'll change it back because I what to be able to look at my icon files without having to open up each one to see what it is.

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