Finding actual location of icon folder

Yawrood22 · 30 May 2013

OS: Windows 7 Professional
Where is the actual location of the file folder containing all the default icons available in Windows 7? The When you right-click on a folder, the 'Properties', the 'Customize', then 'Change Icon', the 'Change Icon for _name_ Folder appears, displaying many icons. The first box you can type in, named "Look for icons in this file:", shows %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll .

I have searched every folder on my computer - opened every single one. The icons are not to be found.

Can anyone tell me how to locate this file?

Thank you.

Bongo · 30 May 2013

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Most are in the imageres.dll in both C:\Windows\System32 and C:\Windows\SysWOW64

Jerry

alphanumeric · 30 May 2013

They are not in a folder. They are images embedded in the SHELL32.dll file. That's where a lot of the default windows ones are. Installed programs may use their own that are embedded in a file that is part of that installed program.

Yawrood22 · 30 May 2013

Thank you for your response.

Does that mean I CANNOT get to them?

Ztruker · 30 May 2013

What do you mean by "get to them"? Do you want to extract the icons, edit them, what?

VistaKing · 30 May 2013

If you want to modify the default icons use the program below

http://www.bome.com/bome/downloads/R...Trial_1747.exe

The other file where icons are stored are in imagesp1.dll inside C:\Windows\System32

Yawrood22 · 30 May 2013

Ztruker: What I mean is that I want to see the icons that are there

Yawrood22 · 30 May 2013

VistaKing: After you download it, then what?

VistaKing · 30 May 2013

Right click in the dll file imageres.dll choose open select Restorator then click on the icon folder

Ztruker · 30 May 2013

An easy way to view them is to right click on a icon on the Desktop and select Properties. Click on the Change Icon button at the bottom. If not already selected, Browse to

%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll and %SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll

You can see all the icons in each dll that way. No program needed to do this.