[Solved] Some TortoiseGit overlays missing

[jonathanpoulin]

Hi,

I have a problem about TortoiseGit overlays for TC 32-bit version only.

I have installed the TC 11.03 32-bit and 64-bit version. So, I can compare easily.

On TC 64-bit version, everything is okay about TortoiseGit overlays. I can see all of them, for every status.

However, with TC 32-bit version, the files and directories overlays for at least the status 'Ignored' are missing. The other ones are there, like 'Normal', 'Added', and 'Modified'. So, this is really strange!

Btw, my following Windows registry key contains exclusively TortoiseGit subkeys, so that's not the problem here.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers

Someone has the same problem?

[ghisler(Author)]

Windows limits the number of overlay icons to 15, with 4 reserved for Windows overlays like link files. See e.g.
https://superuser.com/questions/1166577/why-does-windows-limit-icon-overlays-to-15

Now when a program adds its overlays, other programs have to live with what is remaining. If you have a 32-bit shell extension installed for something else, e.g. Dropbox, it will steal overlay space from TortoiseGit.

You can use a tool like ShellExView to turn off unneeded shell extensions:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

[jonathanpoulin]

2ghisler(Author)

Hi Christian,

Okay, I will maybe give ShellExView a try (I think I used it in the past).

But, I think I just found out in the registry what is the cause of the problem I exposed. I will try something and get back with the results here after.

[jonathanpoulin]

Ok, this is fixed. The thing is that I forgot about the other registry key below (used for 32-bit):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers

I have now all the TortoiseGit overlays in Total Commander!

All good!

[ghisler(Author)]

Nice to hear that!

Moderator message

Moved to English forum

[jonathanpoulin]

Thanks for the move!

[jonathanpoulin]

Please rename the topic to:
[Solved] Some TortoiseGit overlays missing

[white]

Please rename the topic to:

You can change the subject of your first post yourself. That will do it.

[jonathanpoulin]

2white

Great, I'll do that! Thanks for the info!