Right Side Start menu icons

[RBCC]

Where in the registry can I change the icons for these items:
Default Icons, Device and Printers and games on the right side of the start menu? John

 

[WalkerA WinTeam]

Hi John,

When you say the icons, do you mean the icon your User Account picture changes to as you hover over each item on the list (i.e. Camera/Printer, round Windows logo/green check, and Blue question mark)? And I think you mean Default Programs not Default Icons

Cheers,

Walker
Windows Outreach Team

 

[iClone]

its not in the registry....
you can find when here:
C:/Windows/System32/imageres.dl

use res hacker and change them

+rep if helped

 

[Arc]

its not in the registry....
you can find when here:
C:/Windows/System32/imageres.dl

use res hacker and change them

+rep if helped

Is it a fair practice to ask for reps ?

 

[Uber Philf]

its not in the registry....
you can find when here:
C:/Windows/System32/imageres.dl

use res hacker and change them

+rep if helped

Is it a fair practice to ask for reps ?

No it's not, please don't ask for rep, rep will be given accordingly.

 

[sergiogarcia9]

its not in the registry....
you can find when here:
C:/Windows/System32/imageres.dl

use res hacker and change them

+rep if helped

Is it a fair practice to ask for reps ?

No it's not, please don't ask for rep, rep will be given accordingly.

Also could make you loose your current rep (neg rep from a staff member), which happened to me way back when i was a newbie

 

[RBCC]

I sent along a picture

When you haver over games the icon on the top of the start menu changes, how do change that icon. See pic

 

[Arc]

When you haver over games the icon on the top of the start menu changes, how do change that icon. See pic

Hi John!

Excellent idea, pal. I never play games, so I never looked on it .... searching for a wayout if possible, looking this thread if anybody knows it .

 

[sergiogarcia9]

You can change it. You just gotta edit imageres.dll (i believe thats the only one you have to edit)

 

[SK6594246]

I think this link may help you...

"http://www.virtualplastic.net/html/icn_reg.html"


its registry and I didnt get the shell32 link in registry but I made it and have successfully done for changing the system default folder...
folder could also be done from imageres.dll but I was unaware of that earlier.

 

[Imperfect1]

If I'm not mistaken, if you change the icon for an item, the new icon appears everywhere in the system, wherever the old icon used to appear. For example, if you change the icon for a program on the Desktop, the new icon for that program would appear in the Start Menu, if you pinned it to the Start Menu, or in Windows Explorer if you looked for the program's folder there. So rather than trying to go into the Start Menu (as you are) to change an app's icon, why not just change it from the Desktop or some other easier location. The change should apply to it's location in the Start Menu when you're done.

Here are a few interesting tutorials that might help (one of which was written by Arc!):
Folder Icon Change
User Folders - Change Default Icon
How to Change Windows 7 System Icons Using Resource Hacker
Windows 7 Tray Icons Changer by =Kishan-Bagaria on deviantART

 

[SK6594246]

if you mean to change the source icon for the system Icons, you will need to change the system file... imageres.dll to be precise. however all risk is yours if you damage this file. So if you are going for the change in system file, you will need some tools like restorator.

google restorator and you can get the trial version which is time bound so you can change your system file.

All you do to your system is your responsibility