Icon size in shell32 question....

[bigred]

Whenever I've edited the shell32 file in the past, I've just changed each icon using the existing icon's sizes (very often 16x16 up to 48x48).

What I'm wondering, for you experts...is if you put in an icon with other sizes (up to 128), will they work? Or does this cause any problems? I've got all my icons extracted, sitting on my desktop, ready to do a new shell32, and would rather ask this and save time, than do it all for nothing.

Will xp take advantage of the highter sizes? Or not? And does it cause problems.

THanks

[Airwolf]

this will work, but if ur shell32.dll has a size 10mb+ u will have some problems with programs.

and if you include those 128x128 icons ur shell32.dll will be very large!

[bigred]

OK.....thanks Airwolf....

I guess maybe leaving out the 128's would help....I'll have to give it a go and see how it runs I guesss.

Thanks for the response.

[Duckie]

The issue with larger icon sizes seems to be program specific because I completely re-did MY shell32 and got rid of ALL 16bit and 256bit icons, replacing them with icons up to 128x128. My shell32 is 23 mgs and i hav had NO, count them, NO issues.

I used Resource Hacker becaus it allows you to import ALL the icons in a package, no matter what the size.

As for those who say it wont display the 128x128 icons, I say, your wrong...mine does fine. It is Microangelo that has issues.

[bigred]

Well I'm gonna try with the full sizes and see what happens. I always use ResHack and never Microangelo so that should be fine.

Thanks Duckie

[bigred]

Well I went ahed with full sizes and ignored the size limit.

It worked perfectly....15.9mb file....no problem

Thanks again Duckie, but thanks to both of you for the input.

Happy hacking.....

[tokrachi]

microangelo is the death of serius mods, why anyone would shell out the dollars for it I don't know. Much better apps out htere that do 10 times as much. Good work bigred

[Airw0lf]

i had a selfmade shell32.dll which got 24mb large.

i made it with reshacker!! just problems with installers and yeahh..

those of you can try to start calc32.exe ;)