No problem.Been there.   Vista Home basic,32 bit.nVidia6150SE I just updated my ticket with milksama, but basically any package I recolor(Nordagan and Conspiracy were worst)doesn't apply. It does create a duplicate file of icons but out of 15 of these I deleted over the weekend,5 were unusable,even manually.Torn up as per SS.I did update my video driver yesterday, so I'm going to retry a couple,I will let support know if it helped.Thanks.

For the folks that are still experiencing this problem, I've been working with Travis from Stardock Support on this issue for a few days now. This issue is fixed!

What some of you may have to do is to first uninstall Icon Packager with Impulse, and to be safe, reboot your system. After reboot relaunch Impulse and then reinstall Icon Packager. Icon Packager and Icon Explorer should now be working without having to activate it!

If for some reason you can't uninstall from Impulse, then try to uninstall from SDC. But reinstall Icon Packager from Impulse!!

This worked for me and all of my packages are still here.

Good Luck to you all!

  

Did you try using the shell extension too?
- Rightclick a file
- Select Properties
- Go to the "Icon" tab.
- Change the icon via the "change icon" field, or the button
- Click apply.

For me the last step tries to run "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Stardock\IconPackager\activate.exe" (which doesn't exist)
If you do copy the activate.* from IP folder, then retry it I get a activate dialog.
If you then do activate, then the IP main program won't work without activating.

I've tried re-activating through Impulse etc, but no dice.

One major good point is, suddenly IP and IPE works properly without requesting an
activate, but sadly the shell extension doesn't.

Hey, good luck with that bro.

Travis from SS instructed me to go into Impulse and click the "?" in the upper right corner, select "Open XML's Folder" (Public), then delete everything inside that folder. After that, uninstall Icon Packager from Impulse then reinstall from Impulse.

Impulse failed to uninstall IP for me, so I uninstalled from SDC, then used Impulse to reinstall.

If Mike hasn't instructed you to do so, then you may want to try this just for giggles. My IP and IPE works now after taking these steps, without the activation woes!

Lemme know how it goes dude...

  

Indeed I did haerdalis, the three elements of Icon Packager are working fine including the shell extension Icon Tabs for the respective file properties, since taking those steps. The thing is, once you get a good solid install, you shouldn't be prompted for activation.

At least this is how it worked for me.

  

I've just gone through the procedure yet again..

When preparing I disabled (as I usually do when installing Stardock apps, but shouldn't be necessary) Outpost Firewall Pro and NOD32.
Not only that, I stopped everything related to them, disabled all services related,
and finally used msconfig to disable their gui part to start (i.e it is as disabled it is possible to achieve without uninstalling the applications themselves).

The result?
No dice, not even remotely possible.

IP and IPE works as earlier, but the shell extension wants to execute the same file I mentioned earlier with the intent to activate itself..

Activation hell indeed.. :/

@Cplair, as I mentioned in #36 I just did this (I've done this a number of times since installing Impulse, not to mention I did a similar thing when running SDC) yet again.

I'm seriously frustrated with this..

Cplair, I'm just happy somebody manages to activate this program fully, although I can't see how.
Apparently it isn't intended to do so on my computer..

I run a standard WXP Pro SP3 slipstreamed + IE7 install (not even nlited)

Until IP4 came along I've never ever had any issues with activation, and I still don't, except with IP4.

@hallv5, perhaps you didn't really have it solved in the first place. I don't know, I've struggled with this issue for a long long time.

To be able to say you don't have the activation issue at all you should be able to do all points below in sequence TWICE (or more).
It should NOT show any activation/error screen for any of the applications.

1. Run IconPackager, then exit
2. Run Icon Explorer, then exit
3. In windows explorer, rightclick a file, select properties, go to the "Icon" tab, change the icon, then click apply. Close windows explorer.
4. Repeat

If you succeed in running the test above, make sure to backup the D&S\All users\Application data\Stardock\IconPackager\sig.bin just in case.

I guess I'm the 'proud owner' of at least part of the activation issue.. Everything except changing an 'individual' icon works. Can run both IconPackager and IconExplorer with no problem. Also can change IconPackages with no problem. Just get the 'Windows can not find...Activate.exe' in the windows explorer part of the equation.Did have it fixed, or so it seemed, for a few days anyways. Changed individual icons on more than one occasion on more than one day after doing the Impulse un/reinstall with anti-virus/firewall shut down after the reboot during the reinstall. Also, tried clearing the XML, etc..Oh well, at least I'm the 'proud owner' of something...

I still have the same problem as above!!!  

Sorry Seabass I didn't see your last reply. I look forward to the update.

The new update seems to have fixed the activation issue in Packager and Icon Explorer.It will change individual icons if you copy the activate.exe into C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Stardock\IconPackager and activate the product. But then you have to reactivate the others. and the circle starts over again. Will waite for the next fix. Thanks