That's the key. A unique name for the icon. It seems that the system picks the first match in it's icon cache. Sometimes.
Bertil Flink Creative Media ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark A. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:48 AM Subject: RE: <lingo-l> Autorun/icon inconsistency > At 12:39 2003-10-15, Todd Culley wrote: > >I would say that the system isn't refreshing its system icon cache for one > >reason or another. Maybe the system has a lot of processes running. > > I suspect this is the case, too. I only recently figured out that the icons > were cached when my CD showed the wrong icon on my old Win2K computer. I > was really spooked since it was an icon for one of the client's > competitors. Double checking showed that the CD did indeed have the correct > icon and I knew that I had just recently tested the other CD on this > machine. "Hmmm. Must be a cache somewhere." I didn't know about the > ShellIconCache file itself until today. > > Now I make sure that the icon always has a unique name. Where I used to use: > > icon=folder\CD.ico > > I now use something like the companies name or initials. > > icon=folder\MAB_CD.ico > > And, yes. Backslash \ is the correct one. Especially since autorun.inf is > still stuck in the old 8.3 days (at least through Win2K, I haven't tested > it for long filenames & spaces on WinXP). > > > > -- > Mark A. Boyd > Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
