To suppress custom icons on CD-ROMs install this extension.
This tends to speed up the Finder by a factor of about a zillion.
To temporarily show the custom icons, hold down the Command () key when opening a folder.
Suppose you want the extension to be inactive (show all icons) except when you hold down the Command () key. Open the 'cdev' resource with ResEdit (Open Using Hex Editor) and change “662C” to “672C”.
Wish
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Dear Apple Computer, Inc.,
how about a nice checkbox in the Views control panel?
Caveats
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Works “as is” with Apple’s CD-ROMs, the PowerCD, some NEC drives, and Optima Technologies CD-R Access™.
It used to work on floppies and networked disks, but I removed this feature since it could permanently (instead of temporarily) turn off the custom icons. CDIconKiller was devised with a read-only device in mind after all.
To support other kinds of media, modify the resource 'STR#' with ID=128; that is, add the name of the driver that accesses the peripheral.
For instance, the floppy driver is named ".Sony" and the network driver is named ".AFPTranslator". (You won’t paste the quotes, will you?)
Q.: HELP! What’s my driver name? I couldn’t find it on my passport!
A. #1: open the control panel or extension containing the driver with ResEdit, open the 'DRVR' resource type, get info, copy the driver name into the 'STR#' 128 in CDIconKiller. This is not guaranteed to work, since someone might use a nonstandard way to install a driver.
A. #2: (for Power Users) drop into Macsbug, type 'drvr', find the right driver in the list, use ResEdit as described in #1.
Warning #1: there is one known interference with Now Utilities 6.5, reported by Howard Chansky. A type 10 Finder error occurs every time he tries to place an item using the Now Folder Menu feature. The crash used to occur with Now 5 and 6 too.
Warning #2: Rahul Sen Gupta reports this weird Finder (as of 7.5.5) bug: with CDIconKiller 1.4 installed in the Startup Items Folder, the Launcher control panel does not open automatically after restart, if the relevant setting is turned on in the General Controls control panel.
To work around this:
1. move CDIconKiller anywhere on your startup disk;
2. make an alias to it, and put the alias into your Startup Items folder;
3. rename the alias so that CDIconKiller starts after the Launcher: "zCDIconKiller" will do.
In the German System Software (the one Rahul Sen Gupta is using) the Launcher is dubbed Klickstarter; General Controls is Allgemeine Einstellungen.
Version History
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1.4.1: Now supports Optima Technologies CD-R Access; thanks to Ivo Maisano, Anna Olmo, and Peppino Ventura for helping with this. Updated to CodeWarrior 11.
1.4: Now runs as a fake control panel, in order to patch only the Finder. Updated to CodeWarrior 10.
1.3.4: Adapted to CodeWarrior 7 (no code changes). Updated the docs.
1.3.3: Fixes a small bug that could prevent the Command-key shortcut from working (thanks to Patrick Dyson for pointing this out). Asm source is back! (I forgot, sorry…)
1.3.2: now works with Apple PowerCDs (thanks to Arnd Gross for pointing this out). No code changes.
1.3.1: was considering only the first string in the STR# resource: fixed.
1.3: should be async-calls compatible; you may specify more than one driver (currently considers the first fifteen strings in the resource; enough?).
1.2: now always loads the patch at startup: can load before your CD driver, works with LoadADrive by Dieter Spaar <spaar@mirider.augusta.de>.
1.1.1: added the 'sysz' resource, the key shortcut, fixed the misaligned icon at startup (suggested by Masatsugu Nagata), better TrapAvailable (written by Stefan Kurth).
1.1: bug fixes, CD driver string in resource (suggested by Quinn), asm tweaks etc. by Fabrizio Oddone
1.0: 05:30 18 June 1994 Original Release by Quinn & Peter N Lewis
