tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12098207.post114977545054532971..comments2024-02-27T06:06:12.136-06:00Comments on Mistress of the Dorkness: What's the Difference? (drawing changes and drawing release icons)Mistress of the Dorknesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03812184646282811013noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12098207.post-1150118444197741042006-06-12T08:20:00.000-05:002006-06-12T08:20:00.000-05:00Ward, Thanks for chiming in... I knew I'd heard of...Ward, <BR/>Thanks for chiming in... I knew I'd heard of this thing, but, wasn't sure how it worked. As I was googling to try to find it for someone, I did come across many postings and complaints about the digital signatures checking, which slows things down. So, understanding now that those two things would work in sort of the same way, it makes sense that the dwgicon shell would slow things down too. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for your $0.02 on the topic, and this is a good thing for people to keep in mind when searching for the elusive cause of a slow-down.Mistress of the Dorknesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03812184646282811013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12098207.post-1149910860647041472006-06-09T22:41:00.000-05:002006-06-09T22:41:00.000-05:00Melanie,Since you posted on my website it seems on...Melanie,<BR/><BR/>Since you posted on my website it seems only fair that I should return the compliment.<BR/><BR/>Regarding the DWGIcon shell for Windows Explorer... ARRGH! Not another one!<BR/><BR/>When Autodesk made their products capable of being digitally signed, the brains there must have thought, "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if Explorer showed signed drawings with a different icon than unsigned drawings? Let's include a shell extension for this and install it when we install any Autodesk product. And LET'S NOT TELL THE USER!"<BR/><BR/>This little extension causes Explorer to examine every .DWG in a folder to decide what icon to use to display it before it ever starts to populate the browser pane with files. This slows down browsing on our LAN (and even more so across our WAN) enormously! It's ridiculous. And even more ridiculous were the months it took me to ferret out this infomation and disable alternate icons company wide. I still hear the screams of my users. Sometimes late at night while I'm dreaming. Gawd! It's awful.<BR/><BR/>There, I feel better now. Thank you.Ward Rombergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148957596186935597noreply@blogger.com