Microsoft KB Archive/64895

PRB: SDK Tools Group Within Windows Shows Wrong Icons PSS ID Number: Q64895 Article last modified on 05-26-1994

3.00 3.10

WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

  Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows versions 3.0 and 3.1 

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SYMPTOMS

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The installation procedure for the Microsoft Windows SDK creates an SDK

Tools group within the Windows Program Manager. Within this group Microsoft

Windows SDK applications are placed.

When you exit from the Windows SDK installation program and run Windows,

the SDK Tools group appears, along with all of the other groups. The icons

within the SDK group appear as the standard window icon and not as the icon

for the respective tools.

If one of the tools is executed – SPY, for example – an application

execution error will be generated.

CAUSE

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This is an indication that the respective file cannot be found by the

system and executed. In this example, this would indicate that the file

SPY.EXE cannot be found and invoked by the system.

RESOLUTION

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To check to see if each tool has the correct and complete pathname,

from the File menu on the Program Manager, choose Properties. The

Command Line for Spy contains only SPY.EXE. However, the full path to

SPY.EXE should appear. To correct this, the Browse option will allow

you to insert the correct Command Line.

The pathname and filename for each tool should be checked to ensure that

each has the correct and complete pathname.

In our example here, when the correct Command Line is entered and saved,

the SPY icon will change from the standard Windows icon to that of the SPY

icon.

Usually, all of the SDK tools will be placed in the same directory, so

rather than using Browse to change the Command Line for each of the

tools, you can do the following:

  After correcting the Command Line for one of the tools, highlight the correct Command line and paste it to the Clipboard by pressing CTRL+INS.   To change the Command Line for the rest of the tools, click the SDK tool, and under the File menu, choose Properties.   Place the cursor before the name of the tool and press the SHIFT+INS keys to paste from the Clipboard, making sure to place a backslash  between the directory and the TOOL.EXE file. 

Additional reference words: 3.00 3.10

KBCategory: SetIns

KBSubcategory: Setins

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