Trouble changing system tray icons...

I've been having a lot of trouble changing the system tray icons for volume, network, etc.

First it seems that Kishan's tool doesn't work with 64-bit Windows, as I tried it and nothing happened...so I tried another method using this tutorial and the System File Replacer: Notification Area Icons - Customize

But again, after a reboot, it just didn't work. The icons were the same.

Finally I decided to just Take Ownership of the dlls and replace the icons manually with Resource Hacker. However, this is where my current problem comes in. I take ownership and rename the original files in system32 and sysWOW64...but when I try to copy in the new files with the replaced icons, it...doesn't seem to be there. I don't get any errors or anything like that. In fact, when I try a second time to copy the file in, Windows asks if I want to overwrite it - implying the file did, in fact, copy into the folder. But I don't SEE it. I only see the backed up file - ex. pnidui.dll.old but there appears to be no pnidui.dll in the folder. Windows acts like it copied the .dll but I don't see it. But I figure, hey, if Windows says it's in there...it must be, right? So I reboot.

Sure enough I just plain don't HAVE a network icon in my tray now. It's gone as though it doesn't exist. I even tried doing the same replacement by booting into Linux via live CD and doing the replacement that way in case something went weird with taking ownership - this time, obviously, I can confirm that the .dll ends up copied into the folder, but the problem persists. I have NO network tray icon upon booting back into Windows.

It's obviously easy to fix this by just renaming the original .dll I backed up again. Reboot again, no issue, my network icon is back in the tray where it belongs. But that's not the point. I want to CHANGE the icon to match the other icons I'm making for my system tray...that's why I'm posting this in the Customization section. I know how to 'fix' the issue of my network icon vanishing by just using the original untouched .dll but I want to know why nothing I try to actually CHANGE the tray icon is working...for now the only 'solution' I can think of is to just hide the network icon from my tray so it doesn't throw off the aesthetic I'm going for, but I like being able to see that I'm connected to the internet. So if it's actually possible to CHANGE this icon and I'm doing something wrong...I'd like some help, please.

Well I already had the original tray icon back so it didn't seem to do anything, but I tried changing the .dll again after the reset and I have the same problem.

Yes, I made some custom icons and I tried using Resource Hacker to change them. I'm trying to change the network icons (pnidui.dll) specifically. I did the reset after I changed the .dll the first time and tried changing it again, but the same thing happened - it just made the entire tray icon disappear until I restored the original .dll. I can't seem to get it to just let me change the icon in my system tray but not get rid of the notifier entirely.

Edit: I also just realized I'm logged in as a different account than my first post!! Lol, I didn't realize I had an account here before so I registered newly to make this thread - apparently my browser remembered my old login instead, though. Didn't even notice until now :P

I did replace the icons in both .dlls. I only replaced the wifi icons in them, though (I never use a wired connection), with some icons that I made.



I changed both the system32 and sysWOW64 .dll to use these icons, but upon reboot there was just no network icon in my tray at all.

Here are the .dll files with my replaced icons. I just replaced the wifi icons with Resource Hacker, but did I maybe do something wrong?

Thank you so much Bongo, that worked perfectly. I'll have to look into Restorator in the future. I never had issues with Resource Hacker before so I didn't know it could corrupt files, but I usually use it to change the icons inside .exe files and not .dlls.