TortoiseSVN icons not showing up under Windows 7

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I can t seem to get the icons to display under Windows 7 and I really miss this from Windows XP   How can it be fixed

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I had the same issue as the OP  Win 7  x64   TortoiseSVN  x64   and DropBox  x86   The info from some of the other answers gave me all the info  I ve only ever had the x64 version of TSVN installed on this machine    In my case TSVN and DropBox were installed the same day I did the OS install and the overlays worked fine until a couple of days ago  I did nothing involving changing settings for either app to cause them to stop working   Here is what I had in the icon overlay registry section after the problem started  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers      DropboxExt1 DropboxExt2 DropboxExt3 EnhancedStorageShell Offline Files SharingPrivate TortoiseAdded TortoiseConflict TortoiseDeleted TortoiseIgnored TortoiseLocked TortoiseModified TortoiseNormal TortoiseReadOnly TortoiseUnversioned   I verified that only the overlays corresponding to the first 11 entries display in Explorer  When I modified the order of above entries by adding  z  to the start of some of them  again only the first 11 overlays  under the updated order  would display    With the above I had everything I needed to solve the problem  either rename or or delete entries so that the TSVN entries I want working are  lt    11 on the list   Below deals with wondering why this suddenly happened   I know that based on the overlays that worked prior to a couple of days ago  keys 1-3  7-9  12-13 were all  lt   11 in the list  not sure if overlay  14 ever worked since I never had files w  read-only status   15 never worked on this machine so i know it was never in the top 11   I also assume the block of TSVN keys move up down in unison  therefore they were bumped down either two or three places    see below   This implies that 2-3 items were added between the DropBox  amp  TSVN blocks  The three that are there now are added by Windows and I would assume they d be there as soon as the OS installed    Is the list of 15 overlays determined at run-time  Seems like the overlay handlers might sometimes tell the windows shell that there are no icons to add to the list  Possibly some settings I messed with a couple of days ago related to file sharing and file encryption caused some of those items at the 4-6 spots to become  activated  and push the SVN ones down   In the end I deleted a couple of entries and moved some  so my final list looks like this     DropboxExt1 DropboxExt2 DropboxExt3 SharingPrivate  i want this to show up  TortoiseAdded TortoiseConflict TortoiseDeleted TortoiseModified TortoiseNormal TortoiseReadOnly TortoiseUnversioned zOffline Files  i don t use Sync Center  or  Offline Files  so I don t care about this  zEnhancedStorageShell  don t really know what Enhanced Storage is  don t think I need this

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My icons had disappeared too  The registry fixes did not work for me either   This is how I got them back    install the latest version of TortoiseOverlays  restart explorer exe

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I resolved it by using Autoruns from Sysinternals    Run Autoruns In the  Explorer  tab  scroll down to the  OverlayIconIdentifier  and  ShellOverlayIconIdentifier  entries Un-tick unwanted overlays  such as most of any Dropbox  SkyDrive etc   Restart Explorer exe

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If you want to use Tortoise from within a 32 bit Application on Windows 7 64 bit  you need to install both the 64bit and the 32bit versions of Tortoise  According to Tortoise s makers  this works fine   source

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Sometimes you just need to go to TortoiseSVN  settings   turn the icons off  click  apply   turn them back on   Windows Start- All Programs- TortoiseSVN- Settings

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Two other possible solutions    Kill TSVNCache exe and let it re-launch   This has caused my shell overlay icons to re-appear on several occasions  If you ve recently upgraded TortoiseSVN from a previous version  you may need to upgrade your working copy   This can be done by right-clicking on your project folder and choose  SVN Upgrade working copy  from the context menu

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Possible problems and solutions   Limitation of number of usable overlay icons by Windows  refer to Kris Erickson s answer  Inappropriate setting of TortoiseSVN  refer to Ralph Cowling s answer  Known bug for updating from earlier version  pre 1 6 10   see here   TortoiseSVN was not installed for all users  try to install with cmd like below  if all below three solutions don t work  I believe this method will save your life      rem Set your own path  set TOOL ROOT d  Tools TortoiseSVN-1 6 13 20954-win32-svn-1 6 16 tortoisesvn 1 6 16 21511 set PACKAGENAME TortoiseSVN-1 6 16 21511-x64-svn-1 6 17 msi set TOOL INSTALLROOT  c  Program Files  x86  TortoiseSVN   msiexec  i   TOOL ROOT   PACKAGENAME   INSTALLDIR  TOOL INSTALLROOT  ALLUSERS 1 ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT 1 RebootYesNo No REBOOT ReallySupress  qb-  set ret  ERRORLEVEL   rem The installer seems to return same values as MSI rem These codes mean that the product is properly installed  even though the code is not zero  rem 1641 ERROR SUCCESS REBOOT INITIATED rem 3010 ERROR SUCCESS REBOOT REQUIRED if  ret  EQU 1641 set ret 0 if  ret  EQU 3010 set ret 0 if  ret  GTR 0 exit  ret

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They display fine here  Are you using the 64-bit version of Windows 7 along with the 32-bit version of TortoiseSVN  If so  then they will only show up in the 32-bit Explorer  or in the CFDs of 32-bit applications   You can install both 32-bit and 64-bit versions side-by-side  though

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If you have recently upgraded Tortoise SVN  it may be because version 1 7 seems to need a new format for storing the status of files - in which case  you can right click the root folder of your repository in question  and use the Tortoise menu option of  SVN Upgrade Working Copy    This resolved the problem for me    Cheers Matt

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Same problem for me  It turns out that the cause of the problem was the new JungleDisk 3 0  which rudely installs three overlays named  1Sync      2Sync     and  3Sync     pushing the Tortoise ones off the end    Just delete those JungleDisk keys in the reg hive listed at the top  or prefix them with z   and re-start the system and Tortoise should work fine again    Given that this overlay limit exists in Windows and is easily hit with current tools  tool vendors really should ask during advanced installation if the user wants to install them  I have no need nor desire for the new  Sync  feature and don t really care for the tactic of stuffing the icons at the top of the list with clever naming  Shame on JungleDisk

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I just upgraded to TSVN 1 6 8 19260 on a WinXP and two Win7 machines  After upgrading  the overlay icons disappeared on all 3 machines  Under the above mentioned registry key  I only found the entry for offline files  I simply had to reinstall repair the TSVN installation and the icons reappeared after a reboot  I ve never detected that behaviour in any previous TSVN version and I certainly installed TSVN everytime the same way with the same permissions

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Also restarting your PC is not needed  Instead restart explorer exe    Press Ctrl Shift Esc  Click the Processes tab  Right-click on explorer exe  Select End Process  Click End Process button  Click the Applications tab  Right-click  Click New Task  Run   Set Open to  explorer Click OK    Windows Explorer has restarted and the TortoiseSVN icons reappear

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Have you tried to change in Tortoise Settings the status cache to  Default   I had this problem with the overlay icon on folders because I had this option in  Shell   The option is in Settings -  Icons overlay   Maybe this could help you http   tortoisesvn net node 97

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When I checked out a new project from the repository  I did not see the icon overlays   I started looking for solutions and came to this question   While reading answers  I noticed the icon overlays appeared on my checkout project   I guess it just took a few minutes for the icons to appear   I thought this might be useful before people panic quickly and start editing the registry

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Changing the registry worked for me   If its helpful to anyone  I initially prefixed  z   to the entries in  ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  that I wanted to move down  However that didn t seem to bring up the TortoiseSVN entries  It might be due to case sensitivity wherein lowercase  z  still precedes uppercase  T   Finally  prefixing with  Z   instead did the trick

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Windows can only show a limited number of Overlay Icons  15 total  11 after what Windows uses    Programs like Office Groove  Dropbox  Mozy  Carbonite  etc  will hijack a bunch of the 11 possible overlay icons  boy would it be nice if Microsoft upped the number of these as the number of applications that use them seem to increase and increase      You can see what overlays are set up  and change them  at your own risk  in the registry here   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  If you are using TortoiseCVS  and have nothing else using overlay icons   you will get a couple of TortoiseSVN Icons  and all of your TortoiseCVS icons   This is because the overlay icons are used in alphabetical order  Again  at your own risk  editing the registry may blow up your computer  yada  yada  yada -- and if you are reading Stack Overflow and using Windows and haven t edited the registry  you are a rare beast indeed   feel free to rename them  I suggest putting numbers in front of the ones you want to use and  z   s prefixed to the ones you don t need    The TortoiseSVN Shell extensions are nicely named so you know what they do  the TortoiseCVS extensions are not   After looking through the source code  I found the pertinent information    TortoiseCVS0 - In CVS TortoiseCVS1 - Not in CVS TortoiseCVS3 - Conflicted TortoiseCVS4 - In CVS readonly TortoiseCVS5 - Ignored TortoiseCVS6 - Added TortoiseCVS7 - Deleted TortoiseCVS8 - Locked

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To complete Johannes s answer  you can check this thread  which mentions another cause  the first one being installing the 32bit client instead of the 64 one   emphasis mine       Only more recent versions of TSVN and TCVS are able to share overlay icons  and since Explorer has a limit of 14 overlay images in total with extraneous overlay icons   simply not showing up you might have too many          If it s overlay icons are showing up you d have to actually be using   the 32-bit Windows Explorer  which of course means you ll have to also   install a 32-bit version of TSVN    The issue might come up when one install also first TortoiseVCS  because      Looking at what got installed in the filesystem and the registry  it looks like they tried to do what I do with my Shell extensions - install both 64 and 32 -bit versions  so that nobody says  I don t see my overlays menus           Unfortunately  it looks like the registry entries for 32-bit got hosed  so the 32-bit extension DLL  even though present  does not have the correct registry entries        If in doubt I suggest to deinstall TCVS and TSVN    Then install TSVN    Maybe after installation reboot twice  not only once    And if they still don t show up go to software control panel and choose to repair the installation  That did the trick for me with when upgrading from the previous to the current version       You should probably install the TortoiseXYZ variant you plan to use mainly first  to improve its chances to fall into one of those limited number of overlay icons slots before the TortoiseXYZ variant you use less    Always keep these limited number of overlay icon slots in mind when trying to analyze malfunctions

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editing the registry order worked for me  the entries already had  s before it  so it wasnt working   I realized the previous entries had spaces  so now my svn registry has a space   name

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After upgrading to TSVN 1 6 8 19260 I had the same issue  no icons in Explorer   but in my case  there were NO entries at all for TSVN under HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  In my original install  I didn t included the additional icon sets  because I never use them  and I ve never installed them in any previous upgrades    I modified my installation  adding the additional icon sets  and my icons have magically reappeared

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A combination of solutions worked for me  I tried to kill and restart explorer exe as suggested by  LeighRiffel  Did not work  I uninstalled dropbox because I rarely use it  Then  I tried the explorer thing again and it worked  Maybe you can reinstall dropbox after this and see if things are okay   I don t care though    Here are the steps  Run taskmgr exe or task manager   processes tab   select explorer exe   kill  Then click file option   new task   enter explorer exe   ok

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I  too  lost my overlays after upgrading to 1 6 8 on Windows 7 x64   I only installed the x64 version and not the 32-bit version   To fix  I ran a repair with the original installer and rebooted   The overlays displayed normally thereafter

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If anyone needs the registry entries for Windows 7 64-bit  here they are  What was good for me as to remove the overlays for items not really used often  Drop Box  Google Drive  Microsoft Products  and just kept the overlays for Tortoise  These are all the overlays - nothing is removed      Caution    Playing with the registry can make your system unstable  Be sure to backup your registry  See this Google search on various ways to backup your registry or registry setting s        Windows Registry Editor Version 5 00       HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers        HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  AccExtIco1        HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  AccExtIco2        HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  AccExtIco3        HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  SkyDrivePro1  ErrorConflict           8BA85C75-763B-4103-94EB-9470F12FE0F7         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  SkyDrivePro2  SyncInProgress           CD55129A-B1A1-438E-A425-CEBC7DC684EE         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  SkyDrivePro3  InSync           E768CD3B-BDDC-436D-9C13-E1B39CA257B1         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  DropboxExt1           FB314ED9-A251-47B7-93E1-CDD82E34AF8B         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  DropboxExt2           FB314EDA-A251-47B7-93E1-CDD82E34AF8B         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  DropboxExt3           FB314EDD-A251-47B7-93E1-CDD82E34AF8B         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  DropboxExt4           FB314EDE-A251-47B7-93E1-CDD82E34AF8B         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  DropboxExt5           FB314EDB-A251-47B7-93E1-CDD82E34AF8B         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  DropboxExt6           FB314EDF-A251-47B7-93E1-CDD82E34AF8B         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  DropboxExt7           FB314EDC-A251-47B7-93E1-CDD82E34AF8B         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  DropboxExt8           FB314EE0-A251-47B7-93E1-CDD82E34AF8B         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers 00avast          472083B0-C522-11CF-8763-00608CC02F24         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers 1EldosIconOverlay          AF743E58-5357-404B-8314-32D2D8420F9D         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers 1TortoiseNormal          C5994560-53D9-4125-87C9-F193FC689CB2         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers 2TortoiseModified          C5994561-53D9-4125-87C9-F193FC689CB2         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers 3TortoiseConflict          C5994562-53D9-4125-87C9-F193FC689CB2         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers 4TortoiseLocked          C5994563-53D9-4125-87C9-F193FC689CB2         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers 5TortoiseReadOnly          C5994564-53D9-4125-87C9-F193FC689CB2         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers 6TortoiseDeleted          C5994565-53D9-4125-87C9-F193FC689CB2         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers 7TortoiseAdded          C5994566-53D9-4125-87C9-F193FC689CB2         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers 8TortoiseIgnored          C5994567-53D9-4125-87C9-F193FC689CB2         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers 9TortoiseUnversioned          C5994568-53D9-4125-87C9-F193FC689CB2         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers EldosIconOverlay          5BB532A2-BF14-4CCC-86B7-71B81EF6F8BC         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers EnhancedStorageShell          D9144DCD-E998-4ECA-AB6A-DCD83CCBA16D         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers GDriveBlacklistedOverlay          81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D42         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers GDriveSharedEditOverlay          81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D44         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers GDriveSharedViewOverlay          81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D43         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers GDriveSyncedOverlay          81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D40         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers GDriveSyncingOverlay          81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers off0          8E33AEC3-C5F2-43C4-B048-9E3EB19B1DD5         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers off1          8E33AEC4-C5F2-43C4-B048-9E3EB19B1DD5         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers Offline Files          4E77131D-3629-431c-9818-C5679DC83E81         HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers SharingPrivate          08244EE6-92F0-47f2-9FC9-929BAA2E7235     Remember  these are for Windows 64-bit and you should take a backup of your registry be

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I found that if you install the 32bit version first it some how mucks up the 64bit version  On reinstalling windows 7 i just installed the 64bit version and it seems to work fine now

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In my case  Dropbox overlays were starting with a    quoted identifier  in the registry  I deleted all the   prefixes and restarted explorer exe    HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers   Edit  I installed Windows 10 and this solution didn t work for me  So I just went to the same registry location and deleted all Google and SkyDrive records and restarted explorer exe    Second edit  After installing TortoiseGit it fixed everything without any customisation

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It seems there is another reason why the icons wont be shown  Today I made an update of my TortoiseSVN Client from 1 6 x to 1 10 x  After that the Icons of my Working copies were not displayed any more  But it turns out that it has nothing to do with to many applications occupy the  possible icons  The reason was that the Working copies format was to old  First you have to make a  SVN upgrade working copy  with your new installed client   You can read more about the details here  SVN upgrade working copy  Have a nice day

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Halt ye   Before doing anything to your registry or similar procedures listed in Kris Erickson s  excellent  answer or the ones below  there s something to consider     Are you on a network drive   If so  go to Tortoise SVN settings  right click any folder   TortoiseSVN   Settings   then go to  Icon Overlays   Make sure you ve checked  Network Drives  as pictured     By default on a fresh Tortoise install  network drives don t have the icons added   This solved the problem for us  If this fails for you then obviously you can go through the  slightly  more involved solutions listed here

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I had same problem here with TortoiseSVN 1 6 16   Icons were fine  but then I installed and uninstalled TortoiseGit and suddenly the TortoiseSVN icons stopped working   Looking at the registry I discovered that uninstalling TortoiseGit also removed all overlay icons   I simply reinstalled TortoiseSVN and it fixed the issue

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Kris Erickson is right  vote him up  In my case the problem was installing TFS powertools   which adds explorer shell integration just like TSVN and TCVS  It adds another 5 overlays  Since they are prefixed with Tfs   they take priority over Tortoise   I also just prefixed the Tfs stuff with z  and the TSVN overlays came back  No need to reboot logoff though  just kill explorer exe and start it again

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My main purpose was to get ICONs for TortoiseCVS   Many of the suggestions did not work for me  uninstall reinstall  regedit by renaming  rebooting multiple times   But what did work was to install TortoiseSVN   This made the icons for TortoiseCVS work   I checked out regedit  The SVN install put numbers in front of the icon names    HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers  1TortoiseNormal 2TortoiseModified 3TortoiseConflict 4TortoiseLocked 5TortoiseReadOnly 6TortoiseDeleted 7TortoiseAdded 8TortoiseIgnored 9TortoiseUnversioned Groove Explorer Icon Overlay 1  GFS Unread Stub  Groove Explorer Icon Overlay 2  GFS Stub  Groove Explorer Icon Overlay 2 5  GFS Unread Folder  Groove Explorer Icon Overlay 3  GFS Folder  Groove Explorer Icon Overlay 4  GFS Unread Mark  SharingPrivate TortoiseAdded TortoiseConflict TortoiseDeleted TortoiseIgnored TortoiseLocked TortoiseModified TortoiseNormal TortoiseReadOnly TortoiseUnversioned zEnhancedStorageShell zOffline Files zSkyDrivePro1  ErrorConflict  zSkyDrivePro2  SyncInProgress  zSkyDrivePro3  InSync

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I suggest complaining to Microsoft regarding the ridiculously low icon overlay limit   If enough of us complain  perhaps they ll fix the true root cause of this problem   See comments at bottom of page  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library cc144123 VS 85  aspx  Give Microsoft Windows 7 team feedback on this issue  http   mymfe microsoft com Windows 207 Feedback aspx formID 195

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I tried everything here  and some otherplaces   and what worked for me  after doing all of these  the registry changes are mandatory I think  was to change the setting for Icon Overlays Status Cache from Default to Shell  and I also checked  Show overlays and context menu only in explorer    Not sure which of those two did it but it works now

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