![]() His classes are available in Phoenix, AZ and online with RemoteLive™. Mike Danseglio teaches IT Security Training, Windows, System Center and Windows Server 2012 classes at Interface Technical Training. Just remember that no more than 15 can be shown. You’re finished! The icons you want to see are now visible again. When you’re finished, close Regedit and restart the PC. That will bump it to the top of the list. For each of them, right-click the key and choose Rename like I’m showing here. Identify the icon overlays you want to see. This is the list of installed icon overlays. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers. You can press Windows R, type regedit, and press Enter. Here’s how you can change the list to suit your own needs.įirst open the Registry Editor. Then I had to change the list to make those overlays the first 15 in the list. So to solve this problem I first had to decide which overlays I want to see. There’s a list in the registry, and no matter how many apps install overlays, only the first 15 are used. That can be really frustrating.Īfter some research I found that Windows 7 and 10 have a hard limit of 15 overlays. At that point some of the overlays stop showing up entirely. ![]() This is really great… until more than two sync apps are running. See the green check overlay? That’s how I know that Cloud Sync has synchronized these files. That overlay is usually helpful so I can tell at a glance which files are synchronized.įor example, here are a few MP3s on my hard disk. Windows/Xbox 10 Game Bar Press the Windows logo key G to open up the Game Bar, select the Overlay menu, and then the Performance tab. But not everyone needs it, and if you’d like to disable it (or enable it again later), all it takes is a visit to Settings. Most of the file sync apps including Box, Dropbox, Cloud Sync, Sugar Sync, and OneDrive are designed to visually indicate when files are synchronized by putting a little indicator over the file. Microsoft’s Xbox Game Bar in Windows 10 is a handy way to call up an overlay of useful widgets using the Windows G keyboard shortcut. I keep work data synchronized with one app, home data with another, media with a third, a freelance job data with a fourth, and so on.įor instructor-led Windows 7 and Windows 8 training, see our complete course schedule. ![]() Sure, I could consolidate, but it’s not really practical for me to have a single app. ![]() I use a ton of file synchronization applications across my desktops and laptops. ![]()
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