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Mountainmaster,
The plot thickens, (and has taken about 4 hours to unfold !) - I realise now, that last night when I got the '... contains no icons' message, all I had done was change the Target on the Shortcut tab of Properties, to the new folder containing the ver 2.4.5 picker.exe - (and I then got told that the 'program contained no icons') - also the picker.exe program was listed with the default window icon. (not it's usual small fish).
I did not actually launch the 2.4.5 Fish Picker ! .... I started the aquarium from its own desk top icon.
Then today ....
Double clicking on the 2.4.5 picker.exe in its folder, or the desk top icon, revealed - 'picker.exe is not a valid Win32 application.' - whilst double clicking the latest vesion downloaded today, stated - 'This program has performed an illegal operation and will shut down. ..... etc' - followed by - 'PICKER caused an invalid page fault in module <unknown> ...etc'
Double clicking on all earlier version of picker.exe appeared to work normally.
THEN ............................Success !
I reverted back to ver 2.4 of Fish Picker.
Restarted my computer.
Reset Fish Picker (from the Help menu)
Deleted all files from the 2.4 folder.
Restored the Aquarium (with the R key)
Restarted my computer again.
Went to the folder containing ver 2.4.5 of Fish Picker.
Deleted all files (which included the picker.exe without the fish icon) .... except picker.zip
Re-extracted the files for ver 2.4.5 from picker.zip
Success, picker.exe now appears with small fish icon, and is valid !
I think the moral here is .... Don't keep multiple copies of a program with the same name ?
Since the very first version of Fish Picker, all I have done at every update (and I've downloaded them all) is simply change the Properties to the new Target. ...... I've got away with it in the past, but maybe this was a version too far.
Incidentally, the version that you asked me to download today, is still showing the wrong icon, and is invalid. I bet if I delete the files and re-extract, the file will now revert to normal ............... Yes it does ! - How do you explain that ?
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