Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Dropbox and TortoiseCVS


I've used TortoiseCVS for quite a while now and recently installed Dropbox onto the same computer. I noticed that after installing Dropbox, most of the icon overlays for TortoiseCVS no longer appeared.

After a quick Google search, I found this helpful Stackoverflow topic. Although the topic mentions the fix is for Windows 7, it worked perfectly on my XP machine. In summary:
  1. Open regedit and navitage to the following: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers
  2. Each type of overlay has its own key. The keys are prioritized in alphabetical order. Since the Dropbox keys appear before the TortoiseCVS keys, there must be a conflict somewhere.
  3. Add a z_ to the Dropbox keys to push them to the bottom.
  4. This fix seems to require a restart to take effect.

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