icon-detect

Icon-detect detects the order of the icon-overlay of Windows, and performs auto-adjustment.

Background

Windows supports icon-overlay for files and folders. But Windows also has a limited number for icon-overlay, so the order of icon-overlay is important. It's called 'icon-overlay battle'.

Find more in List of shell icon overlay identifiers from Wikipedia. It also lists the icon of popular software.

Usage

1. (FIXME) Modify source code.:

   • Change BOOST list in pkg/detect/detect.go to the software you want to adjust.

   • Change PROGRAMTOKILL in main.go to the application you want to restart, after the icon-overlay adjustment.

2. Build the binary.

       PS > go build .
   

   OR (to hide cmd windows):

       PS > go build -ldflags -H=windowsgui .
   

   ⚠️-H=windowsgui will also silence the stdout and stderr. e.g, -h and -v will not have any output.

3. Run it

   • ⚠️icon-detect need to be run as administrator, as it need to access the registry. See UAC for more information.

   • icon-detect will output log file (with rotation) under the execute directory.

   • -b to backup the registry before auto-adjustment.

4. (Optional) Restarting Application via Windows URI Scheme.

   1. icon-detect needs to be registered as a protocol handler.

          PS > .\icon-detect.exe -r
      

      ⚠️run as administrator.

   2. once registered, icon-detect can pop notification to restart application.

   3. Unregister the protocol handler, if needed.

          PS > .\icon-detect.exe -u
      

      ⚠️run as administrator.

UAC

Windows has a UAC(User Account Control) mechanism. You can build icon-detect try to detect if UAC is enabled, and if it is, it will prompt a UAC dialog to ask for administrator permission.

    PS > \path\to\mt.exe -manifest app.manifest -outputresource:icon-detect.exe;1