Icon customization problem

Hi, new to the forums but have used several tutorials in the past to fix or improve my windows 7 professional 64 bit, pretty comfortable with windows 7 being a student tech at college

my problem is I recently decided to change my theme as well as change my icons through "resource hacker" in that order, with my theme, i replaced the "explorerframe.dll" and "explorer.exe" as well as putting the theme into themes folder, after that I modified the imageres.dll file with a few custom icons, now is the confusing part, I modified the imageres file in the system 32 folder, but then noticed there was one is Syswow64 folder so i modified that one as well, but when i restarted my computer the icons didn't show even though when I would pull up the imageres.dll file it would show the custom icons, but what does show the icons correctly is starting a duplicate "explorer.exe" but named differently such as "explorer_backup.exe, i have replaced since the exploreframe.dll with my original, as well as replacing the explorer.exe with the original but still the only thing that will show the icons correctly is starting explorer.exe named differently, really could use some fresh ideas or thoughts

nick12bnack said:

Hi, new to the forums but have used several tutorials in the past to fix or improve my windows 7 professional 64 bit, pretty comfortable with windows 7 being a student tech at college

my problem is I recently decided to change my theme as well as change my icons through "resource hacker" in that order, with my theme, i replaced the "explorerframe.dll" and "explorer.exe" as well as putting the theme into themes folder, after that I modified the imageres.dll file with a few custom icons, now is the confusing part, I modified the imageres file in the system 32 folder, but then noticed there was one is Syswow64 folder so i modified that one as well, but when i restarted my computer the icons didn't show even though when I would pull up the imageres.dll file it would show the custom icons, but what does show the icons correctly is starting a duplicate "explorer.exe" but named differently such as "explorer_backup.exe, i have replaced since the exploreframe.dll with my original, as well as replacing the explorer.exe with the original but still the only thing that will show the icons correctly is starting explorer.exe named differently, really could use some fresh ideas or thoughts

Question is do you want to fix the modified or return it to original condition

would love to fix the modified so that I can have the theme as well as the custom icons, I'm currently restoring the imageres.dll file in the syswow64 folder to see if that is a solution

alright, thanks for the timely responses, now I'm even more confused, I do have a full system image, but i rather not have to use it, I restored the original explorer.exe and have the originals of imageres.dll and restored exploreframe.dll, and right now, half of the custom icons show appropriately with respect to what icons are in the imageres.dll file....?

well system restore failed so i suppose I'll reimage my partition, i haven't yet done it before, I used acronis image backup, has anyone else used this imaging program?