Thanks for the quick reply Zubaz...

I have changed email address since when I registered so I have just contacted Stardock to let them know that.  I included all my original registration details so it shouldn't be a problem.

In the meantime, I copied across the installed files from 4.10.172 from a backup then edited the registry to change the version and everything is sorted for now...working as perfectly well as before I updated.

There is a temporary solution

Unistall IconPackager

Install Stardock Central/Install IconPackager

its the old version

I've been having an issue lately with Impulse and IP on Vista 64-Bit. It seems that no matter how many times I uninstall and reinstall IP through Impulse it always messes up about 90% of the EXE filetype icons. They all become the default icon when rebooting, now I can get the icons to display properly by deleting the IconHandler folder in the registry BUT it seems some installer filetypes become the cmd prompt icon from whatever package I apply, even though some of which should be the default icon for whatever package is applied.

There is a fix though, if I install IP through SDC, reboot and update through Impulse it will work fine. My guess is something is wrong with the full install for IP but updating a current version is fine. I would suggest that anyone having issues with IP give that a try first.

I've hit a few problems with IP v4.10.177 running on Vista Ultimate 32.

First, I'm seeing the same dialog box corruption that chiwou82 did. It affects the Change Icon dialog and its file-browsing sub-dialog. You can see what the dialogs are supposed to look like in the manual:

https://www.stardock.com/products/iconpackager/help/IC_1overview.htm#IC_2_2Change_Icon_Dialog

Next, icon installation behaves poorly when I run IP from a standard account. IP requires elevation to an administrator account, and as a side-effect, most of the icons get installed in the administrator account instead of the original standard account. In practice, this means that file-type icons change OK, but special folders/objects (Computer, Recycle Bin, User, Documents, Pictures, etc) do not. It looks like the former are system-wide while the latter are per-user and therefore installed in the wrong place. Live folders also behave strangely: The new icons only seem to appear if I create a new folder or explicitly reset old folders to the new "default." Workaround: Everything seems OK if I temporarily change the user account to administrator level, then restore it to standard after running IP.

Note that this problem may predate IP v4.1, since it sounds like the same problem described here:

https://forums.stardock.com/300418

Next, the drive icon for my Bluray drive is showing the standard Aero icon instead of the IP icons. However, when I right-click on the drive to change the icon in IP, it shows a reasonable icon (DVD) associated with the drive. Therefore, I don't think it's a matter of BD incompatibility, it just looks like Windows is ignoring the icon for some reason. (Related to this, it'd be nice if there were more options for different drive types.)

Finally, Impulse fails to verify the installation if I change the "Repair Shell Icons" options at all. Restoring the options to their original state results in successful verification. (By the way, I've seen similar issues with other products in the OD suite. For example, RightClick verifies OK right after installation, but simply running the program once will cause it to fail future verifies. And DeskScapes won't verify at all for me.)

well you dont have win vista 64bit

A new release of IP went out.  Give that a try.

The patch installed, I got the 32 bit version, however I am still having problems applying icons, I can apply icon packages fine, but repacing individual icons I get that weird crptic text and my buttons say language and some other werid stuff.

Can you uninstall, reboot, run ccleaner, reboot and intsall IP4.2.

Never mind I see it. I'm going to update to 4.20.178 and see if I still get this problem.

Any news on the app icons disappearing on Vista 64 ?

I got the update for iconpackager and the darn thing removed all the icons I down loaded now I have to start all over again

WOW WHAT A BIG HUGE PAIN!

NEVER AGAIN THE BUGS ARE DRIVING ME CRAZY AND i DO NOT WANT TO HUNT DOWN ALL THE ICONS ALL OVER AGAIN,

the only icons that i have left after updating is the one allready applyed to the folders and files i changed before the update all the rest are gone.'

sorry just hopping mad ...im done with this waisting my time.