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Uninstall Icon the same as Program Icon

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:56 am
by Ryan
I have InstallAware Studio 9 and no matter what I do, my uninstall icon always shows up as the program icon.
* After redoing the setup, sometimes both icons will be the uninstall icon *

- I have copied my icons into my install project folder and specified which icon to show in the shortcuts.

- When I create a brand new setup and specify the project location as my documents, my custom icons work perfect. When I instead specify c:\\projects\\installs the icons are not custom.

This seems like a big bug too me.

What am I missing?

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:47 am
by ALive
Hi, Ryan!

You can think of it that it's weird, but can you type the whole PATH to your icon files?

from drive letter till the icon file itself.
for example: C:\\Folder1\\subfolder2\\....\\icon.ico

I know the problem that still exist with long path to icon files. Even this bug was fixed a couple of IA patches ago, the problem still resides (just don't have time to provide the example).

Best regards!

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:51 am
by Ryan
I can type the whole path to the icon file path. There are some spaces in the folder names, but I doubt that is causing a problem

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:38 am
by Ryan
Got it to work.

Here is what I did. I only set the icon for the uninstall and let InstallAware use the icon of the exe. (This happens to be the same icon I want to use for the installer) I then went to Add-Remove Programs and clicked Load Icon and selected my Install Icon.

For some reason choosing an icon for the program and uninstall messes up InstallAware for me.

Re: Uninstall Icon the same as Program Icon

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 10:37 am
by agrogers
I have version 9 as well and this is happening to me. The wrong icon is being used for most (but not all) of the shortcuts i create. I cant use the 'exe' icon so i need to specify one. Is there a work around for this issue?

Thanks
Andrew

Re: Uninstall Icon the same as Program Icon

Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:55 pm
by mills
Andrew,

What's the build version of IA you're using?

What OS are you testing on?

What icon is used when it's wrong?