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I'm running Tortoise CVS 1.10.10 (with CVS NT 2.5.03) on Win 7 x64, and my folder overlay icons won't appear.

I don't remember when this happened, however I've a colleague running the same setup (also Win 7, x64) and his icons appear just fine.

I've tried installing the latest release of Tortoise CVS (1.12.4) however this version produced a missing iconv-x-x-x.dll error when trying to run 'cvs.exe' commands (and didn't display any overlay icons either).

I have set the overlay icons setting in Tortoise CVS preferences to no avail. I can check in and checkout just fine.

Many thanks.

bduncanj
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This is the first search result that comes up in google when I search for "tortoisecvs icons win7 64". So even though it's an old post, I wanted to add another solution. The accepted answer says to uninstall DropBox. I don't have DropBox, but I still get no icon overlays in 64-bit applications (I do see the overlays if I use file dialogs in 32-bit applications).

A hunt through the TortoiseCVS bug tracker yielded a comment that includes this link: How to Fix Missing TortoiseSVN File Status Icons in Windows

[...] navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers

Export the branch as a .reg file — this will allow you to restore the old settings should anything go wrong.

You will see the Tortoise and other icon overlay identifiers as sub-branches. You can delete unnecessary icon overlay types by right-clicking a branch and selecting Delete [...]

I know it says TortoiseSVN, but it's the same principle. There's a mention in there about how DropBox creates overlays, so I would say this is a more complete solution.

Cheers =)

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paddy
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I have seen this problem as well. It turned out to be because I had Dropbox installed on the same machine, so I install Dropbox on a server instead now.

This problem can probably be caused by other programs that use icon overlays, as Windows can only allow a limited number of these from third-party programs.

paradroid
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In my case, installing Tortoise CVS in XP SP3 compatibility mode worked. I tried all registry editing with no success.

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Qaswed
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I was able to uninstall and re-install Tortoisecvs 1.12.5 and the icons started working...

user200896
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There is a priority in registry, read link:

http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/2015/03/22/managing-overlay-icons-for-dropbox-and-tortoisesvn-and-tortoisegit/

Marco
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I was able to solve it by uinstalling Google drive.

taurusmanuk
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In my case, The folders/files in CVS check-out root folders are set to read-only. When I unset read-only, the icons shows up. However, each time I commit newer files, I have to do this again and again. I didn't find permanent solution up to now.

Scott Chu
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