SW Icons Disappear
SW Icons Disappear
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Hi all,
I have a 64 bit dell workstation, running 32 bit SW2008 SP4.0. Ever since i installed SW the icons next to file names in windows explorer just show the generic pic like ther is no program associated with them. In the type column it know that they are SW documents, but the image would be nice to have. I just updated to SP4.0 hoping it would fix, after the installation some of the icon pics came back, but after system reboot all back to blank. Any thoughts? thanks in advance!
Tony
I have a 64 bit dell workstation, running 32 bit SW2008 SP4.0. Ever since i installed SW the icons next to file names in windows explorer just show the generic pic like ther is no program associated with them. In the type column it know that they are SW documents, but the image would be nice to have. I just updated to SP4.0 hoping it would fix, after the installation some of the icon pics came back, but after system reboot all back to blank. Any thoughts? thanks in advance!
Tony






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-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
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Yeah, we tried toggling the thumbnail thing a few times.
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
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i read that is an installation was modified or repaired it would casue the icons to go away, but supposedly sp3.0 fixed that isse. No such luck.
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Wouldn't you see a performance benefit by installing the 64-bit version of SolidWorks and also remove the OS/App differences which seems to be giving you the problem?
Trevor Clarke. (R & D) Scientific Instruments.Somerset. UK
SW2007x64 SP3.0 Pentium P4 3.6Ghz, 4Gb Ram ATI FireGL V7100 Driver: 8.323.0.0
SW2007x32 SP4.0 Pentium P4 3.6Ghz, 2Gb Ram NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 Driver: 6.14.10.7756
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I wonder if that's a 2008 thing or maybe Vista. I've been using SW2007 x64 3.0 with XP Pro SP2 x64 for eighteen months, it's so much faster than our 32 bit seat and hardly ever crashes (since I sorted the videao card)!
Trevor Clarke. (R & D) Scientific Instruments.Somerset. UK
SW2007x64 SP3.0 Pentium P4 3.6Ghz, 4Gb Ram ATI FireGL V7100 Driver: 8.323.0.0
SW2007x32 SP4.0 Pentium P4 3.6Ghz, 2Gb Ram NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 Driver: 6.14.10.7756
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Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
ctopher's home (updated Apr 30, 2008)
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i am also running win xp pro x64. i've found x64 SW 2008 to be completely unstable, at least for this workstation, PDM crashes, edrawings within PDM crashes, extremely slow start up as well.
ctopher
SW is the only CAD package i have, other than 3ds max which was installed recently but this icon problem started even b4 that install.
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You can try to right click one of the SW files and go to properties. Where it says "Open With" change that to SolidWorks. That should fix it.
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FWIW, SolidWorks '08 is slow to start up whether it's 32-bit or 64-bit.
Jeff Mirisola, CSWP, Certified DriveWorks AE
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
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JMirisola, yes startup for me was unbearibly slow, thats why i went back to 32bit SW
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The problem was sldwinshellextu.dll.
When I had SW 2008 Pre-Release installed it loaded a newer version of sldwinshellextu.dll into:
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\SolidWorks Shared".
I renamed the 2008 version to "sldwinshellextu.dll.back", and then re-registered the correct version of the *.dll, which was in the default SolidWorks 2007 installation directory.
Everything was OK after that, and I have since purged SW 2007 from my system.
Your mileage may vary...
Mike
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Did you try and re-register "sldwinshellextu.dll" using the Regsvr32 command?
It (sldwinshellextu.dll) should exist in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\SolidWorks Shared".
mike
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HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SldAssem.Document\shellex\IconHandler
-Same for SldDraw.Document & SldPart.Document keys.
Removing the handler keys has been working for me.
Note: a 'DefaultIcon' key should exist for each of the three file types. Any time you upgrade or repair the installation these would need to be removed again. I made a .reg file to do this (attached). I have seen no adverse effects from this reg mod, but back up your reg file first, and use at your own risk.
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The correct icons almost look out of place now...
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
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