TortoiseGit not showing icon overlays

Question

I have been using TortoiseGit for almost a full year now. It has been working very well for me until yesterday, when I encountered a problem. I was deleting a f

Answer 1

I had installed TortoiseSVN (1.9.5) and msysgit (2.11.0) first on my Windows 10 64-bit machine. TortoiseSVN icons displayed fine.

When I installed TortoiseGit (2.3.0.0) after these two the icons wouldn't display.

I checked HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers and all looked fine. The tortoise icons were in the top 10.

What I used to fix was raised in TortoiseGit issue #692 on GitLab:

• Open regedit.exe
  • Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
  • Add a new string value "Max Cached Icons" with value "2000"

closed/restarted explorer and icons display!