Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!mts.rpi.edu!Garance_Drosehn From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: How to add startup icon to one that doesn't? Message-ID: Date: 21 Jul 90 01:02:33 GMT References: <29956.26a4beb0@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Lines: 30 In article <29956.26a4beb0@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> mouse@vaxb.acs.unt.edu (Dhanapong Saengrussamee-University of North Texas) writes: > What about those INITs and cdevs that do not show their startup icon? > Is there a way to patch/add something so that it will show its icon (at > least) at startup? (As mentioned in previous posted, I am very good at > peeking & poking with ResEdit and stuffs....) If you're on America Online, you might want to check out a file called FixIcons.SIT (or maybe it's just FixIcons). It has several goodies in it that are related to those startup icons (including one to turn them all off, if I remember right). This same collection of little ResEdit goodies are probably available from other sources, but I know they're on AOL because I just downloaded them last night (I wanted to get the special INIT which causes all the other INIT icons to come up in multiple rows, instead of going off the right-hand side of the screen). The file includes a few different things, and the ones I tried all seemed to do their job well. I think the file is in their Macintosh Utilties section (Keyword MUT), or use Quickfinder to find it. As for Appleshare, just rename the init so it loads later, making sure that you rename any other Appleshare-ish INITs (such as Responder) so they also pop up later in the sequence. Or you could get something like INITPicker 2.0 to reorder the inits (which probably wouldn't be a bad idea anyway if you have a lot of inits & cdevs) Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY. USA