Solved What's the location of the star icon for Favorites?

[Marty McFly]

There are four different star icons in %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll but none of these are the gold star icon that appears in the Favorites sidebar, or at the location 'Favorites' in the address bar.

Does anyone know where the graphic is kept?

 

[Brink]

Hello Marty,

The Favorites star icon is located as icon #1024 in the file below.

%SystemRoot%\System32\imageres.dll

I like using the free program IconViewer that adds an Icon tab to the Properties page of files that contain icons in them.

 

[file3456]

In Resource Hacker icon 1024 is listed under icon groups. Under icons it's listed in the 2300s. Also, the imageres.dll is located in four places in Windows 7 64. They are:

C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\imageres.dll

C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-imageres_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_38b294da11970cde\imageres.dll

C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-imageres_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_dc93f95659399ba8\imageres.dll

Note, all locations have a DLL size of 19,793 KB.

 

[file3456]

To find out what DLLs load you can try a program like Disk Pulse. But you may have to tailor what it records. I've used Disk Pulse many times to note what programs were loading what and what my browser was doing.

I used Everything.exe to find all instances of that DLL.

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[Marty McFly]

Thank you both so much for the very comprehensive answer!

 

[Marty McFly]

I like using the free program IconViewer that adds an Icon tab to the Properties page of files that contain icons in them.

Thanks for recommending IconViewer - I've just installed it and it's a great utility!

I don't suppose you happen know a utility which allows me to replace an icon in the .dll? I am basically trying to change the Favorites star for something else.

 

[Brink]

You would need a program like Resource Hacker to edit the contents of a .dll file like that.

 

[Marty McFly]

Thanks Shaun!

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome.