> On Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 21:08:46, Richard Newman wrote: >> I've seen that happen from time to time although not on the current >> MSI. In addition to the QuickLaunch icon, I've had it happen with >> icons I placed in other strategic (to me) places such as the Start >> Menu.
> Hint: instead of copying the icon that the installer creates, make > your own shortcut to thebat.exe manually. Corrupted icons are a > feature of MSI's "published shortcuts", which instead of running the > executable directly run the installer instead, which tries to check if > something isn't right (unfortunately, I have yet to see a problem > which these icons solve, while I've seen several programs where the > icons would just restart the installer, which would report an error > and request the original MSI file, and when that wasn't found, exit - > however when ran through a shortcut that starts the EXE directly, the > program would work without problems). Correct and your work around works. But is is a work around for something that is broken and should be fixed. Agreed? :) -- Rick Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have. - H. Jackson Brown Jr. v4.1.9 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.1.9 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
