[SOLVED] Icon overlays are not showing up

[atarikg]

Hello,

I am using XYPlorer Pro (with life-time free upgrades) 17.50.0200 on Windows 10 x64 Enterprise with latest updates. I have Team Foundation Server 2015 Power Tools and Google Drive installed. I was able to fix the context menu problem. But, now the the icon overlays are not showing up.

1. General/Refresh, Icons, History/Show Icon Overlays is checked.
2. The icons show up on Windows Explorer fine.
3. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers look okay. I have moved the ones I like to see as icon overlays to the top by adding some extra space to them. In fact, this fixed the Windows Explorer as well.
4. I know that Windows support 15 icons overlays on Windows 7. I assume it is the same number for Windows 10 as well. But it doesn't matter here in my case, since I already moved them to the top.

Any ideas? Could it be a bug?

[highend]

XY is a x86 app. Your modifications must be done in the WOW6432Node to be visible for XY...

[atarikg]

Thanks, so I have executed the following command and I confirmed that all the keys are moved to the WOW6432Node, but I still don't see icon overlays:

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reg copy HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers /s /f

What else do I need? They are still showing up properly on Windows Explorer.

[TheQwerty]

Each of those keys points to a CLSID which are registered under HKCR\CLSID\<value> and HKCR\Wow6432Node\CLSID\<value>.
The key there contains an InprocServer32 key whose default value is the actual DLL to be loaded.

Copying those keys as you did is not necessarily correct since they might point to different CLSIDs depending on the bitness, but assuming for your sake that they did not then you need to ensure the referenced CLSIDs are present under HKCR\Wow6432Node\CLSID as well and that their InprocServer32 keys point to 32-bit modules.

Windows caches these icons so you'll likely need to force a restart of explorer.exe after making your modifications as well.

Lastly, you need to ensure overlays are enabled in XY Tools | Configuration | Refresh, Icons, History | Icons | Show icon overlays.

[atarikg]

So I have moved all those CLSID from the 64 bit location to 32 location. But, unfortunately they won't still work. Will we ever see x64 version of XYPlorer? That would simplify all these pains.

[highend]

And you did follow TheQwerty's instructions to the point (making sure all those InprocServer32 keys point to 32-bit modules)?

[atarikg]

I did. In fact, I pointed them to the x86 dlls. But no luck.

[TheQwerty]

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I made the changes below, restarted XY, and they work well - in all their ugly glory.
They must have made breaking changes to the extension between 2013 and 2015.


It's annoying Microsoft doesn't register both versions of the extension since it prevents the overlays from working in the Open/Save dialog of most 32-bit programs, Visual Studio included. Thankfully they ship the 32-bit version, at least for 2013, so it's possible to manually register them with success.

Granted the entire overlay system is broken thanks to its 12-overlay limit and bad citizens like OneDrive and Dropbox frequently re-prioritizing their icons. To speak nothing of the frustration caused by Microsoft killing off support for IColumnProviers...

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\0TfsOverlayControlled]
@="{EFF5DF4C-7662-4ed7-B533-837D3319D311}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{EFF5DF4C-7662-4ed7-B533-837D3319D311}]
@="0TfsOverlayControlled Class"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{EFF5DF4C-7662-4ed7-B533-837D3319D311}\InprocServer32]
@="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools\\TfsShellExtx86.DLL"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\1TfsOverlayEdit]
@="{FF529703-3398-4c98-B88D-13F784CB10A2}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{FF529703-3398-4c98-B88D-13F784CB10A2}]
@="1TfsOverlayEdit Class"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{FF529703-3398-4c98-B88D-13F784CB10A2}\InprocServer32]
@="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools\\TfsShellExtx86.DLL"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\2TfsOverlayAdd]
@="{D4DD7FC6-066F-442a-A200-DD21649CF378}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{D4DD7FC6-066F-442a-A200-DD21649CF378}]
@="2TfsOverlayAdd Class"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{D4DD7FC6-066F-442a-A200-DD21649CF378}\InprocServer32]
@="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools\\TfsShellExtx86.DLL"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\3TfsOverlayRename]
@="{F15E94B9-9522-42bd-8A73-569BCBE5A5EA}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{F15E94B9-9522-42bd-8A73-569BCBE5A5EA}]
@="3TfsOverlayRename Class"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{F15E94B9-9522-42bd-8A73-569BCBE5A5EA}\InprocServer32]
@="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools\\TfsShellExtx86.DLL"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\4TfsOverlayLock]
@="{EAB6FC01-3462-4dc9-8C94-75582E3DC3CA}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{EAB6FC01-3462-4dc9-8C94-75582E3DC3CA}]
@="4TfsOverlayLock Class"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{EAB6FC01-3462-4dc9-8C94-75582E3DC3CA}\InprocServer32]
@="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools\\TfsShellExtx86.DLL"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"

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[atarikg]

@TheQwerty: Thank you very much! It solved my problem and now I can see them showing up properly. I started liking the XyPlorer even more now.