On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Peer Sommerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2008/10/24 Ted Pavlic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> First, I really do appreciate both of your help and time. >> >> Second, unfortunately everything is still not working. >> >>> Have you looked in host key current user (HKCU), or whatever it's >>> called, from the affected account? >>> >>> We have previously seen that TortoiseOverlays installed in HKCU in some >>> situations - where the user did not have access to HKLM. If this is the >>> case, then you must uninstall TortoiseOverlay from that particular account - >>> which ought to be the same account that THG was installed in. >>> In your case it is probably the local domain account. >>> >>> You should login on the account that has the problem and list what is in >>> registry key ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers. I would expect TortoiseOverlay to >>> show up with a handfull of sub keys. >> >> The ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers that I listed above *were* from the >> account with the problem. The list icons from Mozy, MacDrive, and offline >> files. >> >> I've just now gone into safe mode command prompt and completely blew away >> the old "pavlict.ECE" profile folder (under Documents and Settings) and >> logged back in to the domain account. That regenerated the folder with all >> of my default settings. >> >> Unfortunately, even THAT did not get rid of the problem. > > I would not expect blowing folders to have any effect. The overlay mechanism > is controlled via registry key ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers. > > To sum up: > > You are working on a machine with Windows XP Professional Edition, SP3 > > The problem is on account "local domain" and none else. This is the account > where THG 0.5 and THG 0.4 was installed. No other account has THG installed > on that machine. > > No other account have ever seen the overlay icons or THG context menu. > > On account "local domain" registry key ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers occur > exactly one time, which is below HKLM. > > A search for "tortoise" in the registry has 0 hits. > The registry has been manually edited. All keys with the string tortoise has > been deleted. > > The problem started immediately when THG 0.5 was installed on top of THG > 0.4. It has not been possible to remove the problem by following the > uninstall THG 0.5, uninstall TortoiseOverlays, install THG 0.4, uninstall > THG 0.4 procedure > > You have manually deleted TortoiseOverlay.dll from CommonFiles without > uninstalling it, but after you removed all keys in the registry which > matched a search for "tortoise". > > ---- > > I'm a bit short of ideas of what to try next ... > > The subkeys you mention, Mozy, MacDrive, offline files - are they normally > active, i.e. do you have some other overlay icons on your desktop? I'm > wondering if some of the COM pointers have been changed to point to the > TortoiseOverlay COM. > > > Have you tried to install only TortoiseOverlays? Or to install then > uninstall it? > > Have you tried to install TortoiseSVN which is also bundled with > TortosieOverlays?
I am struggling a little to follow this thread in a short time. If TortoiseHg has indeed be removed from the system, the only thing that can be left is the TortoiseOverlays extension, which the uninstaller of TortoiseHg 0.5 doesn't attempt to removed (as stipulated in TortoiseOverlays' documentation). Do remember that TortoiseHg (0.5) no longer supply it's own icons, and it display overlay icons _only_ through TortoiseOverlays. That's to say, understand normal circumstances, TortoiseHg won't even be able to show the icons if TortoiseOverlays has been removed from the system. Then again, if TortoiseOverlays has been removed, especially via the proper uninstall process, I am at a lost to understand how it didn't remove the overlays icons. After all, Explorer needs to be able to find the icon files during initialization for overlay icons to even work. So I wonder if a copy of TortoiseOverlays could have been created during the Windows update and hiding somewhere. I presume you have searched the hard drives for TortoiseOverlays.dll and those icon files? Just to be really sure, have TortoiseHg 0.5 been installed on the same machine using different user accounts? Just to fulfill my curiosity, can you email me a screenshot that shows the 'spurious' icons? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
