Display of link icons in WinExplorer vs XY

[klownboy]

Hi, I have an off the wall question maybe someone could answer. I have in the past typically had a taskbar button set to display a bunch of links via Windows Explorer using a command line of

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C:\Windows\explorer.exe C:\Users\ken\Tools

and that would yield a Windows Explorer display looking something like this. Note I do use one of the many methods out there to remove the shortcut arrow overlay. This is with icons set to "medium" size in Win Explorer on a Windows 7 machine. I haven't tried it on Windows 8.1.

WinExplorer_display_folder_of_links.PNG

However when I run a script like this

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run """<xy>"" /new ""C:\Users\ken\Tools\"" /win=normal,500,250,615,470 /script=""::#309;loadlayout('thumbs');open 'D:\Tools\AutoHotkey\AHK scripts\TB_XY_hide.ahk';""", , 0, 0;

it will give me an XYplorer display like this. This is with XY's large icons which are smaller than Windows Explorer's medium.

XY_display_folder of links.PNG

I was curious as to why XYplorer shows the icon overlays whereas WindowsExplorer does not. Possibly the icons size or possibly it depends on how the shortcut overlay is removed.. Any ideas? Thanks.
Ken

[admin]

I thought about this 1.5 years. Well, XY's large icons are hard-coded to 32x32, and the overlays are drawn by XY code.

[klownboy]

I thought about this 1.5 years. Well, XY's large icons are hard-coded to 32x32, and the overlays are drawn by XY code.

I hope you didn't think too hard for that long! Why bother drawing shortcut overlays, they just mess up the look of the icons regardless of their size? Especially now that we can hide the lnk extension and at the same time, the actual exe file will have the extension. So there shouldn't be any confusion as to what is what. The people that hide all extensions obviously don't care.