New
#1
Changing shell icons thru Regedit - some icons not affected?!
I am trying to find a way to change all the shell icons via Regedit instead of modifying the DLL files.
It's working pretty well so far. A problem I'm having tho is that even after assigning new icons for folders in several places, they still remain the system default in Save/Open dialog.
these entries affect the folders:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\DefaultIcon]
@="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Icon packs\\Blue Aero i7\\imageres.dll,-4"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\DefaultIcon]
@="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Icon packs\\Blue Aero i7\\imageres.dll,-4"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons]
"3"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Icon packs\\Blue Aero i7\\imageres.dll,-4"
"4"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Icon packs\\Blue Aero i7\\imageres.dll,-4"
Network, hard drive and text file icons remain unchanged as well.
Could there be more places in the Registry where icons are decided?
Below you'll find my complete reg file that I use:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;;;;;;; when pointing to an icon resource, using DLL files apparently scales the icons better than using raw .icos
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons]
"8"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\Aero i7 icons\\hard drive.ico"
"9"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\Aero i7 icons\\hard drive network.ico"
"10"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\Aero i7 icons\\hard drive network offline.ico"
"11"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\Aero i7 icons\\CDROM drive.ico"
"13"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\network.ico"
"15"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\black laptop.ico"
"17"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\networkhood.ico"
"31"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\bin_empty.ico"
"32"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\bin_full.ico"
"33"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\network.ico"
"34"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\desktop google Icon 47.ico"
"37"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\Aero i7 icons\\aero i7 printer folder.ico"
"38"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\Aero i7 icons\\font folder.ico"
"43"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\favorites.ico"
"51"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\bin_full.ico"
"52"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\bin_full.ico"
"53"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\bin_full.ico"
"59"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Windows Shell Icons\\File Types\\txt.ico"
"3"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Icon packs\\Blue Aero i7\\imageres.dll,-4"
"4"="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Icon packs\\Blue Aero i7\\imageres.dll,-4"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\DefaultIcon]
@="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Icon packs\\Blue Aero i7\\imageres.dll,-4"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\DefaultIcon]
@="M:\\Portfolio\\Settings & Backups\\[icons]\\Icon packs\\Blue Aero i7\\imageres.dll,-4"