Re: Icon Overlays Broken w/ Win7 and 1.12 R4

This note helped. I restarted my system, signed in as a local Admin user,
installed R4, then reboot, and everything is working correctly now.

Thanks for your help.

Bill

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Arthur Barrett <
arthur.barrett-qn/[email protected]> wrote:

>  William,
>
> TortoiseCVS 1.12 and TortoiseSVN use a common thingy which does the
> overlays - hence why installing one installs the other - this helps people
> who experience problems when trying to use both pieces of software on one
> PC.
>
> UAC - user account control:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control
>
> It's on by default - it's the annoying thing in vista/w7 that asks every
> two clicks if you'd really like to do that...  It should automatically pop
> up when you install an application (like TortoiseCVS).  TortoiseCVS won't
> install properly if you don't have local admin permissions.
>
> Another obvious question: did you reboot after installing?  Did you log in
> as the same user or a different user?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Arthur Barrett
>
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> *From:* William Davis [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 2 March 2010 9:45 AM
> *To:* Arthur Barrett
> *Cc:* tortoisecvs-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
> *Subject:* Re: [TortoiseCVS] Icon Overlays Broken w/ Win7 and 1.12 R4
>
> After the install of R4, I noticed that two TortoiseSVN packages were
> installed too. So I uninstalled both of them AND R4, then re-installed
> (thinking that they may have come from a different package), but the R4
> install puts them in place. I also tried just uninstalling the SVN packages
> alone and it did not help.
>
> What is UAC? I am not sure what UAC is and don't remember any questions
> about it.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Arthur Barrett <
> arthur.barrett-qn/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Bill,
>>
>> Do you have UAC on?  Were  you prompted to elevate during install?  Do you
>> have any other explorer extensions loaded (TortoiseSVN?)?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Arthur Barrett
>>
>>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>> *From:* William Davis [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 2 March 2010 1:58 AM
>> *To:* tortoisecvs-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
>> *Cc:* William Davis
>> *Subject:* [TortoiseCVS] Icon Overlays Broken w/ Win7 and 1.12 R4
>>
>> Quick background: I had an RC version of Win7 and had installed
>> TortoiseCVS 1.12 R3 and everything was working great.
>>
>> I just rebuilt my machine with Win7 Professional and tried installing 1.12
>> R4. Everything appears to install without difficulty, but my Icon Overlays
>> within Explorer are not displaying correctly. All folders and files under
>> CVS control appear with an icon that looks like a broken image.
>>
>> I tried uninstalling and re-installing with 1.12 R3 and that didn't solve
>> the problem.
>>
>> Any help or ideas on things to try would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>

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