Vista x64 Explorer Tab Title

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In any file's properties in Windows Explorer, there's a tab thru which it is possible to change the icon.

The one that says "You can customize the appearance of this file, folder, or drive..."

 

The "title" of that tab appears as unicode --sometimes japanese-- characters.

I could not find a "pattern" either, eg: maybe txt files would show always the same title, jpg files would show another title (but same among themselves) &c... however, this is not the case.

 

Using Vista x64, this happens with both IconPackager 4 and IconPackager 5 beta.

Though not too much of a problem in terms of functionality it "looks" strange, so I wished to inform.

Regards,

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I had the same problem on Vista x64 home premium using IconPackager 44.21.182_05.21.2009.impulse.  Also when using the strange and variably named tab to change icon i got a common.dll error.  I reverted back to IconPackager 44.20.178_02.24.2009.impulse and the problems went away.

i restored my system from an Acronis Image that has all stardock stuff removed and registry cleaned because initially i thought i might be infected with something.  I slowly restored my stardock stuff and it happened again but reverting to  IconPackager 44.20.178_02.24.2009.impulse fixed the problem and now no common.dll error.

 

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

i was wrong.  soon after i applied the my colors suite gloss burgundy my .dat and .dll icons became corrupted and couldn't be fixed so i restored my pre stardock image again.  i restored everything afterwards and am now living with the strange characters and the common.dll error when you try to change an individual icon using explorer.  that must make about ten restores for various conflicts with my colors and various other programs over the last two weeks.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

The Chinese characters are still present on the icon tab in explorer as is the common.dll error but all is working great now from a stardock software point of view.  Deletiing the icon.db in the user files and repooting has fixed the occasional corruption of the icons.  I love this stuff, always keeps me busy tracking down the multitude of places that stardock stuff is located on my computer.  Some consistency would be appreciated but after playing with this stuff and subscribing since windowblind 3 i realize that is unlikely.  It is a comedy but at least is working at the moment and is a lot of fun.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Too bad, in recent times at least, the company has begun sounding much more republican and much less like a community.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

hahahahahahahahahahaha

I had more problems.  This is unbelievable really.  hahahahahahahaha

Finally restored a disk image and stopped using MyColors.  Everything is working great again except for the chinese characters.  No more common.dll errors.  A pity, missing out on all the great MyColors skins that are supposed to be a benefit of ObjectDesktop Subscription.  Funny how MyColors and Windowblinds will alternately report problems with installation when using Impulse depending on which was installed last.  hahahahha

Devine comedy indeed!!!!

hahaha, and nobody cares!!!!

 

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

To get rid of the weird characters for the "icon tab", I  just removed the tab (I  never use it anyway).

And to remove the tab: just delete or  rename shellext64.dll

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

repulicans!!!!
End of quote

I'm glad I'm Republican and not repulican :P .

Hey Stardock - get Brian Harper up here! He seems to be the one listed in the details.

Yeah - this has got to be the strangest bug I've ever seen.

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

That strange tab is kinda cool after a while.  You never know what characters will show up.

Not using MyColors to apply icon packages has solved the other mess.  I did figure out how to get the icon packages out of the gifted mycolors themes and use them in Iconpacker bypassing mycolors!

:thumbsup:  

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

so how did you get rid of the error: failed to load common.dll file

i dont care about the Weird text

and i dont have MyColors

Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top

I still have that.  I hadn't noticed it because I have been using IP to change the icons.  Then yesterday one of my destop icons reverted to a previous one on its own and I tried to use the icon tab to change it and got the common.dll error again.  Strangely and randomly unstable.  At least I haven't had to restore my imageres.dll files recently.

Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm getting the same problem. Folder icon changes won't stick, icon tab in item properties does nothing. Using the latest beta of iconpackager but I tried the latest 4.2 and got the same results. I'm on Vista Ultimate 64bit. I'm not using any other stardock applications at the moment. Anyone found a solution to this problem yet?

Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top

well, IP upchucked on me today and trashed my imageres.dll files again.  i tried just restoring the corrupted files reverting to windows defaults and deleting the icon.db plus rebooting which worked but logonstudiovista didn't like the older imageres.dll files so eventually i ended up restoring a 2 day old acronis image.

Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top

Stardock obviously does not care.  I've reported this bug numerous times, asked for help, and have been ignored.  They've become greedy and incompetent.

One question though. If anyone in these forums does *not* experience the random character and common.dll bugs, are you running Vista 64 or 32?

Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top

This bug is still there on the latest release of IP with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.