Filelist icons

Icons can be displayed in the file windows to find files faster. There are various options to change the icon displaying. Some of them can be changed in the configuration dialog others have to be manually changed in the main settings file.

Basic icon configuration

To set the icon configuration naviagte to the display page in the configuration dialog. There is a group "Show symbols to the left of the filename". These options are mainly to adapt Total Commander to your computers performance. You have to choose one of the four basic options:

• All associated + EXE/LNK (slow, 32-bit only)
• All
• Only standard symbols
• No symbols

To improve the performance on slow media on of the following options may be of interest for you:

• EXE/LNK not on floppy
• EXE/LNK not on net

Overlay icons

To display overlay icons navigate to the display page in the configuration dialog. To display overlay icons activate the checkbox "Show overlay icons, e.g. for links".

Loading behavior

Loading icons for executable and shortcut files can be time consuming. When entering a directory these icons can be loaded in a delayed way. While the filelist is displayed almost immediately as if you had chosen the "All" option icons of executable and shortcut files are loaded in background (=1). If you deactivate (=0) the setting the file list is displayed when all icons even from executable and shortcut files were loaded. The default value is activated (=1).

Main configuration file setting: [Configuration] IconsInThread=1

Other/correlating icon related setting: IconsSpecialFolders=3 ShellExtIcons=1 Showicons=2 ShowEXEandLNKicons=1