Windows 7 - How to change LIVE FOLDER ICON ?

I may be joining this discussion a bit late but I was having the same issue with not all folders "changing" so I thought I would throw my two-pennorth worth in and joined the forum to share what I had discovered.

I've found the solution though, and (I think) what you will find is happening is that the folders that are not changing are the ones that contain sub-folders, but no files !!

What you need to do is create a folder back, with an inside, but no front similar to the attached images, or just a plain back, but then empty folders are not so easily spotted immediately.

You then need to place this in your imageres.dll file. The location to place your icon is:-
In Reshacker:- Icon Group 162
In Microangelo Librarian:- imageres 154
In Restorator:- Icon (Group) 162
In anything else:- You're on your own !!

B.T.W. The only icon sizes I create are:- 256x256 RGBA, 64x64RGBA, 48x48RGBA, 32x32RGBA, 24x24RGBA, 16x16RGBA. No problems so far.

Regards

Elmer BeFuddled

How to save imageres.dll & explorer.dll ? When I hit save Restorator 2007 say access denied! I have full admin and take ownership. This part of the process is such a pain in the ass. My HD crashes and it has been a while since I have done this. Is there an easy way to save please can someone give me step by step to saving the imageres.dll with restorator 2007.

thanks 7F

same thing happened to me. forget about clearing thumb chache through command prompt. run disk clean up, be sure thumb cache is also checked in the what files to clean up directory and run it. now when you go to each folder on your disk be patient the system will need to compile a new data base for every file you open. ciao!

Alright guys,
So replace the icons use resource hacker.
How many pixels for the icon images?
And do I use .ico or another format?
thanks guys great thread.

Hi

I have gathered all my learning here : Folder Icon - Change Default Icon .

You are to use only .ico format, coz only this format generates icons in a windows system .

Use IcoFX - The Free Icon Editor for making/ editing icons . Your icon should contain all the sizes of the first four colors .... to sit in different positions and different resolutions . Otherwise you may get a dialog "out of system resources" in resource hacker; but customization is not affected by that , if you have a 256x256 icon, that would be nice .

NOOOOO! so close to chaning it can't save the imageres file. need permission from trustedinstaller. anyway the get by this?

Follow the link Folder Icon - Change Default Icon ..... and save the modified imageres.dll in desktop as per step 5 . Then replace it as per step 6 (takeownership.reg is a easy way to take ownership of your system files from trusted installer) .

Dont save the result directly to system32.