Change the "Desktop" icon itself

[Keida]

Okay, hello, this is driving me crazy so I have finally decided to sign up to these forums and ask for some help. Hi everyone.

In the places bar, my Desktop icon used to look like this:

But for some reason, I changed it and it now looks like this:

Is there a way to change it back to the default or change it again to something else? I can't remember how I changed the places bar Desktop icon in the first place, and looking online didn't help since I only got tutorials on how to change the desktop icons, but not the "Desktop" icon itself.

If anyone could help, thanks a lot. Since I'm new to these forums, if I end up posting in the wrong place, I'm sorry for any trouble.

PS oh yeah, and another is the Desktop icon when using Alt+Tab

How did I even change these icons in the first place?

 

[Arc]

Hello and welcome, Kedia

Some third party apps do have easier ways to change that icons ... here is two examples of TuneUp Styler and IconPackager


But those programs damage windows 7's system, if used improperly ... So I dont recommend those ...

You can follow the tutorial http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73191-icons-change-using-resource-hacker.html , and change icon group #110 ... it will do the same thing that you want.


If it troubles, let us know !

 

[Keida]

Thanks for your reply. I do have Iconpackager, however it only changed the Desktop icon in the Navigation Pane but not the one used in the Places Bar.

Opening up Resource Hacker, the Desktop icon seems to be the default windows desktop icon (image), but it's not the one shown in the Places Bar or ALT+TAB.

Is there possibly some other location that I have not checked? If you could think of any, please let me know.

I still have the funny cute House icon and the Plus icon. >^<

 

[Arc]

Is there possibly some other location that I have not checked? If you could think of any, please let me know.

Icon Group #35 in shell32.dll ?

 

[Keida]

Hmmm, nope. :[ Still don't know what's affecting the Desktop icon in the Places Bar.

I don't know why there are so many locations for each icon. Can't windows just have a single Desktop icon somewhere and that's it? *Clutches head after endless headdesks.*

More info: I'm wondering is it possibly a regedit thing? I know I mess around with it a lot, but I can't remember how to change the icons in the places bar. The tutorials only shows how to change the locations in the places bar, but not the icons themselves.

 

[Trucidation]

I don't know why there are so many locations for each icon. Can't windows just have a single Desktop icon somewhere and that's it? *Clutches head after endless headdesks.*

It seemed like this at first when I started messing around Win3.11 and Win95, but there's only a few dll files that Windows looks at. Unfortunately I stopped messing with icons some time ago so I forgot what files, sorry >_<

Would be nice if there was a single .\icons folder like there is for fonts.

 

[Brink]

Hello Keida, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might see if running a sfc /scannow command may help if it's just a system file issue.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Arc]

Hello Keida, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might see if running a sfc /scannow command may help if it's just a system file issue.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Shawn,
If it is tried to be changed, is it possible to change the icon in the places dialog only, without affecting the others places ?

I tried, but it takes the effect of the change in all the locations.

 

[Bongo]

I tried, but it takes the effect of the change in all the locations.

Same here Arc icon #110 changed all locations for me, it may take a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html or a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html to get it fixed.
Jerry

 

[Brink]

Arc,

Yeah, a sfc /scannow command would restore all system files back to default.

Unless it's known exactly how the icons were changed to begin with, it's going to be hard to just change those specific ones back.

 

[Keida]

Thanks Arc, for all your help up till now.

And thank you Shawn, I'll try restoring the system files if all else fails. I can simply reapply my theme/settings again. Although I might just keep the desktop icon the way it is, if nothing bad is going to happen.

I'm pretty sure though, that I didn't replace any of the original icons, just redirected the item in the placebar/ALT+TAB to use a different icon instead of the default Desktop icon, either by regedit or right clicking and properties -> change icon.

Thanks everybody! It was worth a shot.