I'd like to reference the icon for my usb drive dynamically from the host computer. This way, the drive can have its custom icon, but each host computer would have its own version of this icon.

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icon="%CustomData%\Icons\Drive Custom IPod Shuffle.ico"

Shortcuts of the drive use this icon path!

F:\%CustomData%\Icons\Drive Custom IPod Shuffle.ico

It puts the drive's root in front, unless the path starts with a letter. Ideas? How could I solve this?

Edited November 29, 200718 yr by Palii

%CustomData% is not a standard environment variable, that's why it doesn't work.

Arie:

Thanks for the fast reply. I created a new environment variable. It works fine for all of shortcuts and other icon references...I just tried with %systemroot% as well....same result.

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icon="%systemroot%\Drive Custom IPod Shuffle.ico"

Now it desperately hangs on to this path:

F:\%systemroot%\Drive Custom IPod Shuffle.ico

More ideas? Is there perhaps a way to reference such environment variables, but without starting the path string with a % character?

The problem goes deeper than I initially suspected.....it happens with ALL icon paths!!! And open paths too!!!

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icon="C:\Drive Custom IPod Shuffle.ico"

Grrrrr....

F:\C:\Drive Custom IPod Shuffle.ico

What could cause this? Iconpackager? Registry?

Edited November 29, 200718 yr by Palii