Upgrade from 9 to 10 does not upgrade icons

I have just upgraded from the latest version of Opus 9 to Opus 10 and the icons (taskbar and desktop) still show for version 9. This has no affect on the operation on Opus 10 but might be interest to GPSoftware.

Essential facts:

  1. Running Windows 7 Professional 64bit (all updates installed)
  2. Downloaded and installed the Opus 10 64bit version (C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus)
  3. Installed Opus 10 over Opus 9 (ie did not uninstall Opus 9)
  4. Rebooted machine after installation of Opus 10 completed.

Tasbar

Desktop

Yeah, I also noticed that.

Did you try to rebuild the icon cache?

intowindows.com/how-to-rebui ... air-icons/

[quote="jon"]Did you try to rebuild the icon cache?

intowindows.com/how-to-rebui ... air-icons/[/quote]
I just tried that, jon.

It didn't work.

It's an infuriating bug in Windows; it caches icons and does not realise when the program they came from is updated.

It's easy to fix, though:

[ul][li]For the taskbar, unpin the icon, then re-pin it.
[/li]
[li]For the desktop shortcut, delete it, then create a new one pointing at dopus.exe.[/li][/ul]

Rebuilding the icon cache should also fix this. I think the reason the linked guide didn't do it for you is because the guide is missing a crucial step. You have to kill/exit all instances of Explorer.exe first before you delete the cache file, otherwise it is written back exactly as it was when you reboot.

leo.
I don't have the icon pinned as there is already an icon in the tray. The icon appears with a '9' on the taskbar unpinned.
And I no longer have a desktop icon as I don't need one. I can double click the desktop.

I will try killing explorer.exe before deleting the cache file.

Killing explorer.exe before deleting the cache file worked. :slight_smile:

Thanks...

I just wrote a tool to automate this, since it's a fiddly thing to do even with a correct guide, and it seems like Windows Vista/7 have so many bugs in this department that I'm doing it about once a month. Now it can be fixed in a double-click:

pretentiousname.com/miscsoft ... rIconCache

[quote="leo"]I just wrote a tool to automate this, since it's a fiddly thing to do even with a correct guide, and it seems like Windows Vista/7 have so many bugs in this department that I'm doing it about once a month. Now it can be fixed in a double-click:

pretentiousname.com/miscsoft ... rIconCache[/quote]
Thanks leo.

Very handy.