So if you’ve got this far, you might have noticed that some Windows Icons have not changed, especially in the “ Users” folder.
See this interesting AskVG article on Sage Thumbs for download link PART 2: How to Customize Individual Folder Icon Sage Thumbs will restore those missing thumbnail images once more:
You’ll need to download and install the free program called “Sage Thumbs”. Thankfully however, there’s a simple solution to this problem. The change mentioned above in the “Folder Options” has one undesirable effect which prevents thumbnail images appearing on some files. To make large icons show correctly you’ll also need to enable “ Always show icons, never thumbnails” option in the “ Folder Options” menu: If you like to view large folder icons as shown in the image above, you can change this in the “ View” menu on the Explorer toolbar. Once the computer restarts, open an Explorer window and you should see your new folder icons. Now restart your computer to take effect. Open Icons folder and place the icon file (.ICO) you want to use as your new folder icon in this folder. Open C: Drive and create a new folder and set its name as IconsĨ. Now close Registry Editor and open an Explorer Window.ħ. Double-click on each String and set their value to C:\Icons\Folder.icoĦ. Now in right-side pane, right-click on a blank area and in the pop-up menu select New -> String Value, do this twice and name these string values to 3 and 4ĥ. With the Explorer key highlighted, right-click on it and in the pop-up menu select New -> Key option. If you’re looking to buy or renew code signing certificates, we invite you to go straight to the source Sectigo was our supplier and will be happy to be yours too.įeel free to reach out to us at if we can help with anything at all.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorerģ.
If you’re a developer who used the Tucows Author Resource Center (ARC) as part of your software dissemination, to buy code signing or other services, we’re happy to help with the transition.Īny certificates purchased through ARC remain valid. We’re thankful to the thousands of software developers who used Tucows Downloads to get their software in front of millions of people, driving billions of downloads over more than 25 years.Ī note to Tucows Downloads Authors/Developers Retiring it is the right move but that doesn’t alter the fact that it will always hold a special place in hearts and our story. Tucows Downloads has had an incredible run. Maintaining the Tucows Downloads site pulls people away from the work that moves our businesses forward. Old sites are a maintenance challenge and therefore a risk. Most seriously in 2016 when instead, we decided to go ad-free, keeping the site up as a public service. We talked about shutting the site down before.
At the same time, we’re building the Mobile Services Enabler SaaS platform that is powering DISH’s entry into the US mobile market.įor the past several years, history, well sentimentality, has been the only reason to keep Tucows Downloads around. Ting Internet is building fiber-optic networks all over the U.S.
OpenSRS (and along the way our acquisitions of Enom, Ascio and EPAG) are the SaaS platforms upon which tens of thousands of customers have built their own domain registration businesses, registering tens of millions of domains on behalf of their customers. Hover offers domain names and email at retail to help people brand their life online. Today, Tucows is the second-largest domain name registrar in the world behind Go Daddy and the largest wholesaler of domain names in the world with customers like Shopify and other global website builder platforms. It’s been a long time since Tucows has been TUCOWS, which stood for The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software. Tucows has grown and evolved as a business. Far more quickly than anyone could have imagined.Ī lot has changed since those early years. What started as a place for people in the know to download software became the place to download software on the burgeoning Internet. The shareware downloads bulletin board system (BBS) that would become Tucows Downloads was founded back in 1993 on a library computer in Flint, MI.
We’re pleased to say that much of the software and other assets that made up the Tucows Downloads library have been transferred to our friends at the Internet Archive for posterity. We have made the difficult decision to retire the Tucows Downloads site.