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NfdHighlighter

NfdHighlighter is a project mainly written in C++ and C, it's free.

Display explorer.exe overlay icon on the file that has NFD normalized file name

NfdHighlighter

Display an icon over the file that has NFD normalized file name on Windows Explorer.

This tool support two combining characters only for now.

  • U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark
  • U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark

This tool is based on the source code of following article.

  • How to overlay an icon over existing shell objects in 3 easy steps - CodeProject

How to install

  1. Copy NfdHighlighter.dll to C:\Windows\System32 or any other directory.
  2. Open cmd.exe as administrator and type following command.

regsvr32 NfdHighlighter.dll

How to uninstall

  1. Open cmd.exe as administrator and type following command.

regsvr32 /u NfdHighlighter.dll

  1. Then you can delete the DLL file.
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