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Changing Icons with Imageres.dll, Major Problems...
Hello everyone,
I have been having some major problems customizing the icons for Windows 7 (Ultimate x64).
I edited imageres.dll with Resource Hacker and changed a number of the icons, then I saved the file.
I looked through the process of replacing the default imageres.dll file in System32 folder on multiple threads and several websites.
However, it seems that no matter what I do, I somehow mess up my whole system and I have to restore from a system image.
I am able to replace the file just fine. I take ownership of imageres.dll in system32 and rename it, and then copy the modified file and make sure it says "imageres.dll".
The copy process works out fine.
However, when I reboot, I cannot log into Windows. It goes to the screen where you would normally select the user and type the password to get into windows.
However, there are no user accounts to choose from. I can only reboot or shutdown at that stage. No user accounts are accessable. I see the login screen wallpaper and the buttons at the bottom, but no user images or accounts that I can log in with.
This happens if I try to boot into safe mode as well.
What is causing this? I haven't heard this described in any threads I have read. In fact, there was one time that I was able to replace the imageres.dll file and have it work and update some icons, but I cannot remember exactly which method I used. Shortly after that, I screwed something up (unrelated to that problem) and had to restore from a system image, which was created before I modified the imageres file.
Can someone here please help me? I spent a long time modifying icons in imageres.dll and I really want to use them. It is really getting tedious to have to do a full system restore from an image every time I try to modify this file.
I really need some help.