TFS - Power tools - How can I add graphics in folders or files

Question

I am using tfs. I am happy about all, but the thing is I am not getting any icons like tortoise svn do. how to make the icons to my folders/files.

here is tfs view :

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And the tortoise view :

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See the commited folders with green tick icons. but in the tfs there is nothing. how to update to icons version of tfs

UPDATE

ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers Items

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possible duplicate of [TFS Power Tools: Shell Extension : Context Menu Quirky and TFS Icons on Files/Folders missing](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10442099/tfs-power-tools-shell-extension-context-menu-quirky-and-tfs-icons-on-files-fo) — DaveShaw, Jun 29 '15 at 22:26

António Almeida · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-29T13:30:07.970

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The problema may be related to the Windows limitation of 15 file extension icons.

You can read more about this problem here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/youhana/archive/2012/01/09/why-am-i-not-seeing-the-icon-overlays-in-shell-extensions-tfs-power-tools.aspx

They recommend you to:

Open the registry

Goto: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer \ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers

Rename our icon overlays to 1TfsOverlayAdd , 2TfsOverlayEdit etc. to bump us up the list

Restart the machine or kill explorer.exe and restart it

Note:
As they say in the post, this is a hacky solution, because it will lead other entries to the end of the list, thus stop working

edited Jun 29 '15 at 13:30

answered Jun 29 '15 at 13:19

António Almeida

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I renamed all folder as like your suggestion. But no icons updated. what is wrong here? do i need to install any other tools? – 3gwebtrain Jul 01 '15 at 04:59
Did you have more than 15 entries in that folder? – António Almeida Jul 01 '15 at 08:59
I am not getting you.. in which folder are you asking? I nothing but re-named the folders. – 3gwebtrain Jul 01 '15 at 10:42
`HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer \ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers` folder in `regedit`, do you have more than 15 entries? – António Almeida Jul 01 '15 at 11:20
Can you see the screen shot in the `update` section of my question? – 3gwebtrain Jul 01 '15 at 11:35
I have more than 15 entries, because i have drop box. what is the fix here? – 3gwebtrain Jul 01 '15 at 11:51
Great, I see the screenshot, have you notice a blank space prefixing the `_AccExtIco1, 2, 3` and also `_DropBoxExt1,2,3...` ? That's the problem, remove those spaces – António Almeida Jul 01 '15 at 13:34

TFS - Power tools - How can I add graphics in folders or files

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