Finding actual location of icon folder

[Yawrood22]

OS: Windows 7 Professional
Where is the actual location of the file folder containing all the default icons available in Windows 7? The When you right-click on a folder, the 'Properties', the 'Customize', then 'Change Icon', the 'Change Icon for _name_ Folder appears, displaying many icons. The first box you can type in, named "Look for icons in this file:", shows %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll .

I have searched every folder on my computer - opened every single one. The icons are not to be found.

Can anyone tell me how to locate this file?

Thank you.

 

[Bongo]

Welcome to the Seven Forums

Most are in the imageres.dll in both C:\Windows\System32 and C:\Windows\SysWOW64

Jerry

 

[alphanumeric]

They are not in a folder. They are images embedded in the SHELL32.dll file. That's where a lot of the default windows ones are. Installed programs may use their own that are embedded in a file that is part of that installed program.

 

[Yawrood22]

Thank you for your response.

Does that mean I CANNOT get to them?

 

[Ztruker]

What do you mean by "get to them"? Do you want to extract the icons, edit them, what?

 

[VistaKing]

If you want to modify the default icons use the program below

:ar: http://www.bome.com/bome/downloads/Restorator2007_Trial_1747.exe

The other file where icons are stored are in imagesp1.dll inside C:\Windows\System32

 

[Yawrood22]

Ztruker: What I mean is that I want to see the icons that are there

 

[Yawrood22]

VistaKing: After you download it, then what?

 

[VistaKing]

Right click in the dll file imageres.dll choose open select Restorator then click on the icon folder

 

[Ztruker]

An easy way to view them is to right click on a icon on the Desktop and select Properties. Click on the Change Icon button at the bottom. If not already selected, Browse to

%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll and %SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll

You can see all the icons in each dll that way. No program needed to do this.

 

[Layback Bear]

Ztruker Your method and shell32.dll work for me. Pictures of icons by the bunch. Bunch is a new computer term I just created.

 

[lehnerus2000]

IconViewer Shell Extension

You could install "IconViewer" Shell Extension.

It adds a tab to the "Properties" window.
It lets you grab and save icon images from files (it's not restricted to dll files).

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Here's the link:
IconViewer

 

[Yawrood22]

to Ztrucker's 9:53 Post:

I already DID browse to "%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll and %SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll". I did that before I ever posted the first time . . . .says "no preview available".

 

[Yawrood22]

Thank you Lehnerus2000