Icons - Change Using Resource Hacker

im trying to restore the original imageres.dll file but it wont let me. can you help me out?

vierasniper said:

im trying to restore the original imageres.dll file but it wont let me. can you help me out?

I think you have a backup of the original imageres.dll, and what is the problem now? If you have restored the original file but the original icons is not all back, give it a bit time, use the icons, then it would be ok.

But if you cannot pot the original in the system 32 folder, it is due to the logic that a same file name cannot be there more than once in a root. So first change the name of the existing (modified) imageres.dll to imageresMOD.dll or something, and then put the original file there, and restart :)

neeraj said:

hey!! ARC well done man....


you helped many people including me..!!
keep it up buddy

Thanks a lot, Neeraj pal

Arc said:

vierasniper said:

im trying to restore the original imageres.dll file but it wont let me. can you help me out?

I think you have a backup of the original imageres.dll, and what is the problem now? If you have restored the original file but the original icons is not all back, give it a bit time, use the icons, then it would be ok.

But if you cannot pot the original in the system 32 folder, it is due to the logic that a same file name cannot be there more than once in a root. So first change the name of the existing (modified) imageres.dll to imageresMOD.dll or something, and then put the original file there, and restart :)

I'd hate to be a bother, but after i change the name of the moded one, it wont let me but the original one in. do i have to "own it" and if i do how do i know its "mine"? i have this function that lets me take ownership by right clicking on a file and the clicking the option "Take Ownership" will that do it?

Good Work Arc !!

Capt.Jack Sparrow said:

Good Work Arc !!

Thanks, Captain !

kevin21388 said:

Hey, I was looking in another post and it mentioned shell32.dll. I have tried to also change the icons in this one, but when I do, it says that explorer.exe has encountered an error. By changing the imageres.dll files, it changed some of the icons, but not all of them. What is going on with it?

Hi Kevin, Welcome, pal!
You are right, that imageres.dll doesnot contain all the icons, there are more locations where icons are stored, like explorer.exe and shell 32.dll.

From the screenshot, you may see that the icons contained in explorer.exe are not generally used, so nobody does not want to change them generally. Then comes the question of icons in shell32.dll. Most of the icons (other tahn a few xp style icons) are included in imageres.dll. Hence I dont recommend to change those files. But, it is always better to have a system image backup before taking ownership of system files or customizing them.