Vista Beta 1 Icons - XP Working

[JustGeorge]

I had the same problem on a laptop I tweak at work. I ended up using Resource Hacker and doing them myself.

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Or you can use tweakUI to remove the shortcut arrow alltogether. Not a real fix but makes the issue less of a problem. I think the shell32.dll needs to be altered to fix this issue.

[Mike_Wilson]

The reason for the shortcut overlay to look like the following:

is because the icon itself is full size, the normal xp shortcut overlay is smaller and hense does not fill the whole icon itself.

I remove the arrows from shortcuts but for people who dont, you can use this modified icon I made which should fix the problem. Ive attached it below, you can either res hack it into your shell32.dll at Icon Group 30 or you can place the icon in the icons\shell32 folder for the patcher overwriting the old icon then just re-patch your shell32.dll as before.

Icon_30.ico

[JustGeorge]

Thanks :)

[jojoey]

http://joejoe.ath.cx/vista.htm

I mirrored it ;)

[Mike_Wilson]

mirrored what exactly, dont mirror my stuff without permission, u dont even give credit where its due.

[EZRecovery]

Thanks Mike_Wilson (Y)

[azz0r_wugg]

Im a newb at this stuff so

- I cant copy the output files to there former directories because they are in use!

- Where do I put the icons folder?

[Mike_Wilson]

YOU MUST BE CAREFUL DOING THIS, I FIND THIS THE EASIEST WAY BUT BE CAREFUL

Windows stores backups of the files so if they are replaced they get overwriten by the originals. So first you need to stop this from happeneing.

You rename the files in the C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache folder in which you want to add new ones, so if you want to put in a patched shell32.dll for example you rename the shell32.dll in C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache to shell32.dll.bak so its there as a backup but is not going to overwrite. Do this with all files you want to replace.

So if you want to install the patched files like shell32.dll, mydocs.dll, explorer.exe then you would rename all these files in the C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache folder.

Now since Windows is using the files you want to replace for example, the shell32.dll file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\ you cannot delete it, so instead you can rename it, so rename it to shell32.dll.bak or something and then paste your patched one from the output folder of the patcher into C:\WINDOWS\system32\ and its installed. You will recieve a Windows File Protection box, just click cancel if this appears.

All files except Explorer.exe are located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\, Explorer.exe is located in C:\WINDOWS\

Reboot and you might need to re-build your icon cache, this can be done with tools such as TweakUI or you can just boot into safemode and then back into windows.

[JustGeorge]

I just went into safe mode, swapped the files, rebooted and re-built icon cache. Your mileage may vary though.

[Mike_Wilson]

Or boot into safemode and cut out the dllcache part like denzilla just said, depends what you wanna do I suppose.

[Guzman]

To change the drive icon like mine has the flag on my windows drive. I use a registry setting which looks like the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\C\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Documents and Settings\\vistadrive.ico"

All its doing is saying use this icon on this drive, my windows drive is my C:\ drive so the key is C etc. The @ setting is the path of the icon with the flag. Just copy the code above into notepad, change the path to the path of your icon and save it with .reg extension then run it and click yes.

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I tried to get to get my C drive icon to change to the windows drive. I copied the text exactly ([HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\C\DefaultIcon]

@="C:\\Documents and Settings\\vistadrive.ico"),

saved it as a .reg file but when I run it I get the error "The specified file is not a registry script". You can only import binary registry files from within the registry editor".

Does it matter what I name the file, as long as it has a .reg extention? Was I supposed to put the quotation marks in the "C:\\Documents and Settings\\vistadrive.ico" part? All of my icons were successfully changed (with IconTweaker) but I want different icons for my two hard drives (The one with the Windows symbol for the one with the OS, and the regular Vista drive for the other drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated

[ATLien_0]

I have tuneup utilites 2004 it allows you to change the individual drive icons

But If I want to change the control panel icons how do i do that. Tuneup doesnt allow that

[Guzman]

I have tuneup utilites 2004 it allows you to change the individual drive icons

But If I want to change the control panel icons how do i do that. Tuneup doesnt allow that

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I have Tunup Utilities 2004 as well and I can't change just one of the hard drive icons. I can change all (both of them) and it works, but if I try and change them individually then it doesn't work. The same thing happens in IconTweaker

[BigGiantHead]

I have tuneup utilites 2004 it allows you to change the individual drive icons

But If I want to change the control panel icons how do i do that. Tuneup doesnt allow that

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Reshack the shell32.dll file ,replace the original icons with new ones

268 Accessibility Options

269 User Accounts

270 Appearance and Themes

271 Add/Remove Programs

272 Printers and Other Hardware

273 Network and Internet Connections

274 Other Control Panel Options

275 Performance and Maintenance

276 Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options

277 Sound, Speech, and Audio Devices

This will change the category view

You can also use IconTweaker to change drive and system icons.

[Guzman]

IconTweaker will replace the all the icons successfully, as long as I want everything in the catagory to have the same icon (all hard drives are the same, all CD/DVD drives are the same, but when I try and change individual drive icons, it doesn't work

[Mike_Wilson]

Guzman when you copyed the text to notepad you missed the Registry header

You must put

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

at the top of the reg file, also change @="C:\\Documents and Settings\\vistadrive.ico" to the directory you have placed the harddrive icon or it will display a general blank icon.

[Guzman]

Thanks Mike, that worked but it still didn't display the icon (I placed the icon in my C\\Documents and Setting folder). I think there must be another issue with my machine. Like I said, I can change both my C and D hard drives to the same icons but not different ones, the same goes for different icons for my CD-RW and DVD-RW drives. I've tiried using IconTweaker and WinStyler. Both show the icon changed but it doesn't show up changed. And I've rebult the icon cache. Oh well the little windows symbol would have been cool

[M118LR]

Mike

I am having a problem with icon 20 in shell32. It is the wrong icon and I can't figure out which one the right icon is. On the Start Menu/All Programs/Accessories for example it should be a small folder on it's side icon but it isn't. It is still the XP icon. Which Vista icon replaces icon 20? I can ResHack or is there an update to your patcher?

[Shad0w480]

BlackIce the Link to LHB1.rar or IconPackager Icons dont Works please update it

Thanks!

[Osiris]

Seriously anyone got any PNGs fanging yet?

[ATLien_0]

when i reshack the control panel icons, this will also effect the icons on the control panel/startmenu list right?

[Mike_Wilson]

Updated the patcher to v2 for anyone who cares, patches more files and uses better process.

[M118LR]

Mike

Will you take a look at icon 20 in shell32. I believe it should be a small file folder on its side. That is the icon to change the programs icon off of the start menu. As it is now icon 20 is a XP icon not a Vista icon.

I am glad for the update though.

[Mike_Wilson]

In the shell32.dll for vista it doesnt have any icon change for that. The start menu is different in vista, it navigates through folders in one pane. The icon it uses is the open folder icon, you could just change Icon 20 to that for the same effect.

Hope this helps

[JustGeorge]

Thanks for the v2 update :)