I didn't pay, it was a trial. You guys are crazy if you don't think this warrants a warning, but I guess that's the beauty of the internet, the crazies all congregate together. Enjoy the kool-aid, I guess. Shrug.
This is true, however googling for iconpackager and windows 7 doesn't show any warnings, and even has some people running 4.x with no issues (assumedly they didn't try to revert back to stock icons), so one might reasonably be led to believe that it works fine. Actually come to think of it, iconpackager is the only program I've seen so far that isn't 100% compatible. Stardock should include a warning on the 4.2 download page until 5 is available. Or even better, the program should ref
Luckily I had a system restore point from this morning, which resolved the situation. For anyone reading this, do NOT install iconpackager 4.x on windows 7!
I tried out the current iconpackager trial, and it totally messed up all of my icons. They're all wrong; my DVD icon looks like a floppy disk, my default icon is a big UAC shield, and so on. Restoring to windows default doesn't help, uninstalling iconpackager doesn't help, and running the odnt_zapper doesn't help. Reading through the forums, it looks like my mistake was installing 4.2 on windows 7, and this is fixed with version 5.0-- but I can't get version 5.0 without paying, which