Comments on: TortoiseCVS and TortoiseSVN on Vista and Windows 7 x64 – Overlay Icons

By: markus

markus — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:04:11 +0000

i can also confirm that your installation instructions work.

moreover i think that the crucial point is to install TortoiseSVN before (!) TortoiseCVS. i installed the official TortoiseCVS 1.12.5 release instead of the pardini version and this works as well.

By: Steine

Steine — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:05:26 +0000

Thank’s Pardini!
You saved my day.

Even in Helsinki there is free beer waiting for You.

By: Gwen

Gwen — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:25:09 +0000

PS: edit the registry at your own risk

By: Gwen

Gwen — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:21:51 +0000

I’ve had the same issue and, after searching a bit, I found this could be caused by the limit in overlay icons windows allows to show (15 in total). This can be checked in the registry key stated here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers.

Deleting this seems a radical suggestion! There can be other entries in use by other applications and the OS.

There may be several entries, much more than the 15 allowed! They are applied in alphabetical order, therefore, if you count 15 from above and the “Tortoise” entries are out of range, the overlays won’t be shown. You can make a work around, for example, renaming other entries (related to applications you use less) so they appear lower in the list (for instance, adding a “z_” prefix or a “v” or anything that makes Tortoise go up) .

I did this, logged out and logged back in and it’s working for me so far!

By: myhnet

myhnet — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:58:40 +0000

thank you, it works for me

By: Confluence: Amberg Technologies: Research, Development, Integration

Confluence: Amberg Technologies: Research, Development, Integration — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:18:03 +0000

Switch to Windows 7 – general problems…

Switch to Windows 7 general problems Configuration Windows 7 Professional 64 bit EN CPU Intel i7 RAM GB HDD 500 GB General problems This part deals with general problems or differences between Windows XP and Windows 7…….

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:34:30 +0000

Pardini,

This worked perfectly, many thanks for posting this build. This development has made my life so much easier!

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:00:37 +0000

Hello,

does anyone deploy TortoiseCVS e. g. via GPO and has functional MSI-Package for Windows 7x 64?

I want to deploy TortoiseCVS for our development department, but it’s quite difficult to repackage.

Regards,

Jan

By: John Money

John Money — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:01:35 +0000

Cheers! Beer on me if you’re in Boston or SF.

By: ai-a

ai-a — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:45:16 +0000

you said “… Then install my custom build of TortoiseCVS, TortoiseCVS-1.11.6-pardini.exe. It is a custom built CVS-HEAD checkout, without many changes.” but your saying there was no new source involved. are you saying a compiliation of CVS HEAD, along with TortoiseSVN makes overlay icons work in Win7 ?

If you’ve made ANY change, then its a change, and needs to be documented or given out so we can reproduce the whole events from the original sources.

Ai-a