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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.