DUO 2 and Echoes Icons Missing in Vista Ultimate SP1 x86

[Ex_Brit]

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.

[Michael_King]

Could be the Vista just doesnt like the format of the icon embedded into the EXE... Vista likes everything its own way, where as XP is a lot more friendly.

[Ex_Brit]

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.

[fog]

Hi Peter and welcome,

I've replied properly to your email which I believe you've read and, as I've said, it looks OK in Vista here, but I have made a note of the problem and will look into it further when I update to SP1 myself.

I'll have a look into the differences between the mono and DUO icons to see if I can see what might cause one to work and not the other, but IIRC they were created in exacly the same way.

It's a bit of a mystery but luckily not a game breaking one

[Ex_Brit]

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!

[TheKhakinator]

I remember back in my day of using the DBPro trial version, everyone was always complaining about the icons not working - slected in the compiler to be the *.exe icon but would never show up.

[Ex_Brit]

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.

[Ex_Brit]

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.

[fog]

Thanks for that info Peter.   I wont upload a new version of the games just to fix the icons but I'll make sure I do it if/when I do any other revisions.

I remember back in my day of using the DBPro trial version, everyone was always complaining about the icons not working - slected in the compiler to be the *.exe icon but would never show up.

It still doesn't work for me although I haven't upgraded far a little while.  I have to use a hack to get the icons in there. 

[Ex_Brit]

Thanks.