TortoiseGit not showing icon overlays
I had the same problem and I got it to work by following instructions from a forum. What I did was this (copied):
I find solution :) Wrapping with
""all tortoise keys underHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifierson
1TortoiseNormaland etc... I understood the problem, seeing as Dropbox and it worked regedit there was the sign ("") to Dropbox but not tortoise. So I added the signs, close explorer.exe and hop it was good :)
So what I did was rename the key 1TortoiseNormal to "1TortoiseNormal" etc. I have no idea why wrapping it inside a double quote makes it work again.
The original forum is gone, but a good summary is supplied in the comments.
Windows will only allow up to 11 icon overlay identifiers, arranged in alphanumeric order - if there are more than 11, these icons will not be displayed.
You can run the following command in a DOS prompt:
regedit /e c:\icons.txt HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers
Then open the file C:\icons.txt. Skip the first two lines, and if 1TortoiseNormal and the other *Tortoise* values are not in the top 11 values, their icon overlays will not be shown. The solution provided by @Chi Chan is just a simple way to make 1TortoiseNormal rank higher when ordered among all the overlays, you can also rename the values by adding space(s) before 1TortoiseNormal, i.e.,
" 1TortoiseNormal"
to make them rank higher.
update: for Windows 8, the limit of icon overlays is 15.
Windows 10 Solution Steps;
- Open regedit
Path :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers
Remove/delete all SkyDrive/OneDrive keys. You may need to take ownership of the keys one by one and give your user full control if you receive an error while trying to delete the keys.
Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc and restart "Windows Explorer" (Optionally restart computer)
All git/svn overlay icons are now visible !