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Very nice Mike and thanks for sharing...:)

I typically have two hacked shell32.dll's on my HD, and am presently using my OSX styled shell32.dll...This will work out well when I get the time and ambition to (once again-lol) hack my LH5048 styled shell32.dll, with these from Vista Beta 1..

As anyone who has worked with hacking a shell32.dll it is very tiresome work........lol very repetitive, but fully worth it for a nice GUI change!

Other then some obvious "peoples computers become stuffed" issues, upload a shell32.dll it depends on the version of the file. I dont know if the file changes between versions of XP, but theres may be a different shell32.dll for Windows XP sp2, and sp1 etc.

Either way, you just need to get a reshacker, and go through manually changing the icons which is a pain i know cause i'll have to do it this arvo.

However, once it's done keep a copy of the file for the future.

NOTE: When you do this, make sure to keep a copy of the shell32.dll file incase of problems!!! just back it up to a directory somewhere. or copy, paste to the same directory and rename it to shell32.bak

@Mike_Wilson - I read the tutorial on how to use Resource Hacker, and I got a lot of the icons changed on my XP SP2 box, but I cannot get My Computer icon or my network drive icons to change. I did replace them using Resource Hacker, but they did not change. Any idea why? Any different step I should take? Any other program I could use?

I named the original shell32.dll from Windows to shell32.bak, and in Safe Mode moved the new hacked shel32.dll to the %windows%\system32 folder. Like I said, it worked, but some of the icons did not change.

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Thanks

/EZ

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