Thanks.

Problem solved.  It appears that Vista does not like .ico files that are less than 32 X 32 pixels.

See post # 6 here:  http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft-public-windows-vista-general/220239-program-icons.html#post778555

By using the program mentioned there I now have my program shortcut icons the way they are supposed to look.

This really is weird.  I even just booted over to XP and backed up up the Binaryzoo folders to removable media and the icons were sure enough showing at that stage.

I open the contents of the CDRW in Vista....poof, they've gone generic.

Hi,

Yes thanks, I wasn't sure the email got through so had posted here just in case.   It is very strange that the icons I know are there in my XP folder show up similarly generified, if there is such a word, when viewed from Vista.
I'm wracking my brains here as to what might cause this.  I seem to remember reading somewhere how Vista interprets some images differently from XP but can I find that references?  No, of course not!

Thanks, that looks like the reason.   The icons show when I'm booted into XP but if I look sat the XP installation from Vista they are gone, so no point in trying to import them.
It's strange that the old DUO and DUOtris would show OK though.

This is really about making my Games shortcut folder look better.

I downloaded DUO 2, Echoes and Duotris and out of all of them only the original (old) DUO version and DUOtris icons show up in the extracted items.  DUO 2 and Echoes both show the generic Vista icon for an unknown application.

Any ideas why that would happen folks?

Thumbs attached to illustrate what I mean.

I triple boot 2 XP Pro SP3 and 1 Vista Ultimate SP1 and they all show up in XP just fine.