Doug, are you accessing the Windows icons in their binary package? If so, you could probably extract them, probably with a Windows tool, convert them into OS/2 icons (winico on Hobbes) and save them in the same directory with an ico suffix. Presumably the system will just load the ico file rather then hunting through the Win binary.
Hmmm. I never thought about that. Since I really don't care what icon gets displayed, i don't need to extract whatever might be in the file. I found a simple 888 byte window icon (OS/2 format), copied that into the folder, using the ico extension, and yes, it solves the problem (at least it looks like it has solved the problem). The folder also opens much faster, and I seem to have a couple of meg more free shared memory space. Free Shared Mem shows a short period where lower shared memory drops by a small amount (nothing like before), but it is far less likely to cause a problem. Now, to figure out how to get that icon copied, using the appropriate name, BEFORE I need to open the folder.
If you are able to open the .exe with 7-Zip, it has the ability to enumerate sub-components within the executable and extract icons and other files for you, and then you can use them that way.
Never thought about that either. It works, for some files, but not others. As noted above, I really don't care what icon gets displayed, my 888 byte icon is perfect for what I need, so I don't need to worry about extracting icons.
Thanks to both of you.