Reloading explorer

catnipbear · 1st April 2002, 14:59

Hi all,

I have an NSIS install package that registers a couple of icons and a font. Problem is, it appears that I need to restart explorer to get windows to start using the icons and font.

My question: Is there any command that I can run to tell explorer to reload it's font and icon lists without restarting it?

Thanks,

Bryan

Yathosho · 1st April 2002, 18:23

can't you simply close and re-open the explorer? there were posts about how to close running programs in this forums, just check them.

catnipbear · 1st April 2002, 19:29

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm talking about the main explorer process that controls the desktop. Killing this will cause the start bar and everything to disappear.

Bryan

kichik · 1st April 2002, 21:00

Hi!

I don't quite understand the icons problem. How can you register icons? Aren't they just regular files? If you can please more specific I can try to help...

<edit> I am not quite sure that this is what you are looking for but have a look at this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...angenotify.asp
</edit>

About the fonts question, here is a post you might find useful:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....threadid=79586

KiCHiK

1st April 2002, 14:59	#1
catnipbear Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 2	Reloading explorer Hi all, I have an NSIS install package that registers a couple of icons and a font. Problem is, it appears that I need to restart explorer to get windows to start using the icons and font. My question: Is there any command that I can run to tell explorer to reload it's font and icon lists without restarting it? Thanks, Bryan

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Yathosho Forum King Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: AT-DE Posts: 3,366	can't you simply close and re-open the explorer? there were posts about how to close running programs in this forums, just check them. NSIS IDE for Atom \| NSIS for Visual Studio Code \| NSIS for Sublime Text \| NSIS.docset

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1st April 2002, 19:29	#3
catnipbear Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 2	Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm talking about the main explorer process that controls the desktop. Killing this will cause the start bar and everything to disappear. Bryan

1st April 2002, 21:00	#4
kichik M.I.A. [NSIS Dev, Mod] Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Israel Posts: 11,343	Hi! I don't quite understand the icons problem. How can you register icons? Aren't they just regular files? If you can please more specific I can try to help... <edit> I am not quite sure that this is what you are looking for but have a look at this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...angenotify.asp </edit> About the fonts question, here is a post you might find useful: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....threadid=79586 KiCHiK