Custom Themes, Icons and Start Buttons.

[copernicus]

Nope, how do I do that?

edit: Like this:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html?ltr=I

The taskbar Icon for libraries is still yellow flavor. =(

Blu ray dis drive and floppy are also not included.

 

[Dixon Butz]

in your usernam\appdata\local
delete IconCache.db
Reboot

 

[Generator]

The taskbar Icon for libraries is still yellow flavor. =(

Blu ray dis drive and floppy are also not included.

If the setup went fine and the 'Desktop' icons ('Computer/Recycle Bin) and 'Computer' icons (Hard-Drive) changed, then I'm afraid you will need to speak to Mr GRiM regarding icons that are not included.


I know 'Floppy' drives arn't included because mines normal color too, I honestly don't know if 'Blu-Ray' has been included because I don't own one.
(but he has made a '.ico' file for Blu-Ray, I've noticed it about in the 'custom theme' thread.)

 

[Mark]

Sorry, there is no icon included for floppy and no one should need one in this day and age anyway LOL, as far as the Blueray icon goes, I have no idea which icon it uses by default so if you can tell me which one it is I will replace it with the one I made and I will also replace the Floppy one as well if you really want it.

Oh and if you want to change the Yellow Explorer icon then you will have to do it manually as the icon for that is actually in the explorer.exe but I have also included it in the imageres.dll, %SystemRoot%\System32\imageres.dll, but you will have to make desktop shortcut first and change it there and then unpin the old one from the taskbar and then pin the new one.



Also I would like to mention that I have them for 7600 as well, so as soon as you can tell me which icon is used by default for Blueray I will upload it.

 

[copernicus]

in your usernam\appdata\local
delete IconCache.db
Reboot

Files are stil manilla on the desktop after this.

Network icons on the left hand pane in explorer are also still manilla.

 

[Generator]

Files are stil manilla on the desktop after this.

Regarding the desktop, do you mean the "User's Files" icon or shortcuts to folders/shares etc?

 

[copernicus]

Just regular folders I have on the desktop. There are random folders across my drives that aren't blue either. =?

 

[Generator]

Hmmm..
I think it's still an icon cache problem somewhere, the installer does actually delete the 'iconcache.db' twice over (1st before the restart and then on restart) and you have done it manually too.. so it cant just be that one cache file is what I'm thinking.


If you right-click one of the manilla folders on the desktop, goto 'Properties' -> 'Customize' -> 'Folder icons', click the 'Change Icon...' button, Hit the 'Restore Default' button then apply, That one manilla folder should now turn blue.
(I had literally just two or three folders do the same but they where hidden away in my Windows folder and they did sort themselves out after a couple of reboots)


This is what makes me think it's a caching problem somewhere other than just the 'iconcache.db'. I realise that the above solution (if you could call it that) isn't a real solution but maybe it helps just for now (If only to make your desktop have matching icons.)


I shall do some more investigations with my 2nd PC regarding this icon refresh problem.

 

[copernicus]

Yeah, the older folders are retaining their manillaness.

Just unzipped the same file over and it came out blue.

 

[Dixon Butz]

Grim

Can you upload dll's for 7600?

Thx

 

[Dixon Butz]

Just manually installed the 7264 dll's on 7600 x86.
Your shell32.dll put windows in a boot loop like it did in 7131.
Then I used the RC1 shell32 from Milosap's (spelling?) areroshine theme and it changed all icons to yours without breaking the save dialog like it did in earlier 7 builds.
I'm sure that if i changed back to the original shell32 from 7600 that your icons would stick. I may try that later.

 

[Klaw117]

Will this installer work for build 7100?

 

[Dixon Butz]

Will this installer work for build 7100?

Your pc won't boot if you install this on 7100

 

[Klaw117]

Well then...can we make this for other builds as well instead of just 7264?

 

[Generator]

Well then...can we make this for other builds as well instead of just 7264?

Hi Klaw117, I can't see why not if Mr GRiM is happy with it & if he is happy with how the installer is performing.


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@ Everyone:
If you have installed Mr GRiM's Icon Pack using this installer and have not yet commented,
please let us know how it went!

 

[Mark]

I'm happy with the installer and I used it with the new modified dll's for 7600 but I was wanted to know which icon windows is using for default for Blueray drives so I can replace that one too.

Another problem with 7600 is that there are different versions of that particular build so may have to modify it for each one, all I have to do to make it work with a newer build is change the version info so it not that difficult.

Sean if you want to release the others that you made I say go for it or if you want to try modifying the version info as well for a particular build.

Here is the version info for 7600 the first leak, 6.1.7600.16384

 

[Generator]

I'm happy with the installer and I used it with the new modified dll's for 7600 but I was wanted to know which icon windows is using for default for Blueray drives so I can replace that one too.

Another problem with 7600 is that there are different versions of that particular build so may have to modify it for each one, all I have to do to make it work with a newer build is change the version info so it not that difficult.

Sean if you want to release the others that you made I say go for it or if you want to try modifying the version info as well for a particular build.

Here is the version info for 7600 the first leak, 6.1.7600.16384

I havn't put any other zips together as yet but it's just a case of replacing/updating the dll's in the zip and editing the txt file in the zips root with the build numbers.
(so it's just a matter of minutes to create ones for other builds)

One of the reasons for not doing the other builds as yet was just incase you wanted to add extras, I noticed the Blu-Ray icon in the theme thread.

It's 5.26am here now and still need sleep but once I have slept I'll go searching for the 'Blu-ray' icon resource.

Could/Would you be so kind to come up with an icon for the floppy-drive pretty please?
(I know.. ancient tech lol! )

 

[Dixon Butz]

I'm happy with the installer and I used it with the new modified dll's for 7600 but I was wanted to know which icon windows is using for default for Blueray drives so I can replace that one too.

Another problem with 7600 is that there are different versions of that particular build so may have to modify it for each one, all I have to do to make it work with a newer build is change the version info so it not that difficult.

Sean if you want to release the others that you made I say go for it or if you want to try modifying the version info as well for a particular build.

Here is the version info for 7600 the first leak, 6.1.7600.16384

Wrong zip Grim? Only 1.5Kb.

 

[Mark]

Wrong zip Grim? Only 1.5Kb.

LOL, that was just the version info for anyone who wanted to modify the custom dll's from 7264 using Restorator to make them valid for 7600.

 

[Dixon Butz]

Oh