Can run at any time, place in startup folder or write as powershell and place in task scheduler to run upon startup.īatch file: REG DELETE HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers /F.
So I've scheduled a python script found on this post (by Christoph Zwerschke) to execute every time the computer boots. The problem with the leading spaces is that every time you reboot, Dropbox adds another space to its registries, and will be always one step ahead of you.
Remove Dropbox Explorer Icons.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 Currently they have 3 spaces before the "Dropbo圎xtXX", before they had only one. Note, that the values change from time to time, too. Save it somewhere, because they will come back! Here is a registry script to remove them. I Agree with Chi Chan and I would like to add this as an complementary answer. This has worked for me twice now when my TortoiseGIT icon overlays have quit, so, maybe it will work for someone else. From there go back to processes, kill explorer.exe, then go back to applications -> New Task again and fire up explorer.exe. No sign of anything similar for git, so on a whim I went over to the applications tab and hit "New Task", entered TGITCache.exe and sure enough that process fired up. I looked in my processes tab of task manager and saw I had something called TSVNCache.exe running. I also use TortoiseSVN and those icon overlays were still working for me. I am too busy for the blanket answer of "restart the computer" what that says to me is "some service process needs to be restarted but you'd never be able to find it so just restart." Nah. That is probably a good thing to do no matter what but icon overlays were still not working. I also had my TortoiseGIT shell icons quit displaying suddenly, I don't remember exactly what led up to it but I found this and tried the registry stuff changing 1TortioiseNormal to "1TortioiseNormal" and so on. I tried to create a new user on my computer, and the new user has icon overlays working just fine. \ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers, then uninstalled TortoiseGit, restarted the computer and reinstalled TortoiseGit.
I deleted all icon overlays starting with "Tortoise" in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer.Reinstall TortoiseGit (uninstall, restart, install, restart).I changed TortoiseGit settings to show different icons.In the open file dialogue of all programs, the icons still exist (!). The behaviour is, however, not like any of the others who posted questions here, because: Since that time (and I am not sure if the incident described has anything to do with it), TortoiseGit has stopped showing icon overlays in explorer. I was deleting a folder when Windows Explorer sort of crashed on me (it hung on "discovering items") for over an hour, then I restarted the system. It has been working very well for me until yesterday, when I encountered a problem.
I have been using TortoiseGit for almost a full year now.