On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Adrian Buehlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 25.04.2008 11:26, Georg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > one of my colleagues who uses tortoisehg on Windows reports an annoying > > slow down of the Windows explorer once tortoisehg is installed. I > > figured that would probably be caused by the decoration of the files and > > dirs with the Hg state icons (unchanged, changed, etc.). > > > > Is there a way to turn off the decoration, still keeping the other > > features like tortoisehg context menu? > > Yes, if you are not afraid of using regedit. > > Start regedit and navigate to > > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers > > delete the following subkeys: > > Changed > Unchanged > Added
This sort of back-door hack is not recommended. No one can be sure what damage it can do down the road. Since the worm is already out of the can, if you must, then please understand that it will have to be done at your own risk. > (you might export them to a .reg file before deleting, so you can re-add them > in case you want to go back) > > Then logout/login or kill/restart all explorer.exe processes. > > This works for 0.3 and 0.4rc1, most likely for expected 0.4final too. > > As TK Soh said, 0.4 will have a feature to turn them off, but the above > trick gives you the ultimate speed as it completely removes the > TortoiseHG *overlay icon handler*. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
