Upgrade the icon

[sylveon]

The current dates from Windows XP

There's a really good candidate from imageres.dll

[gurnec]

Unfortunately, I can't just rip Microsoft's copyrighted icons out of Windows and redistribute them, and I'd rather not rewrite HashCheck to directly load the icons from imageres.dll at runtime (I assume it'd be possible?) if I can avoid it--it's a lot of work for not much benefit.

However, Microsoft does offer a Visual Studio image pack with far more permissive redistribution rights. I'll take a look in there to see if this icon (or something similar) is available.

In any case, thanks for the idea!

[sylveon]

The file type icon's path is stored in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\HashCheck\DefaultIcon. You can make it point to the imageres.dll's icon instead of the built-in icon.

You can change the key with the installer after the DLL is registered or change the following code so that it directly points the imageres.dll icon instead of the built-in when the DLL registers.

Please note that the icon is only available starting from Windows 8, so the DLL/installer should fallback on the built-in when the OS is older.

[gurnec]

Thanks for the additional info.

There's also the icon that's displayed in the upper left of any HashCheck window that's running and on the task bar (search for IDI_FILETYPE in the code, it wouldn't be too hard to change, but is it worth it?), and even worse there's the one (two and counting if you consider this branch) in the context menu handler which needs to be in BMP format, not ICO format....

[sylveon]

I personnaly prefer to have an empty context menu icon because currently it's the only one having an icon and stands a bit too much:

But if you want to still show an icon in the context menu, it's not hard to do (Maybe consider an toggle to hide the icon in the settings also)

I'm not sure if the window icon is worth the trouble, I only use the properties panel. Depends if it's used a lot.