How do you change the default folder icon??

[Shifty]

How do you change the default folder icon??

I went through the file types in the folder options

and found the folder icon, but when you open up the

properties for it, the option to change the icon is greyed out

is there a registery hack or a program that i can use to

change the default icon?

[correllium]

I use E-Icons most of the time, it works good. IconPhile has a few more options but I always get errors with it. If you just want to chnage folders I'd get E-Icons:

http://www.deepgls.com/eicons/

[f4lc0n]

Im running Windows XP Pro i've used both e-icons, and iconphile, to change the folder icons, and it works for windows explorer, however if i use internet explorer or the open dialog the default yellow folders appear, anyone know how to fix this.

[correllium]

Yeah you have to replace them in shell32.dll. I've actually been trying to replace alot of the icons with OS X ones in 8 dll's, iexplore.exe, and explorer.exe.

[correllium]

Here's a screen:

http://www.sphosting.com/correllium/screen2.jpg

[f4lc0n]

how do u do that? i tried using reshacker in safe mode to replace the default icons in shell32.dll but the file was in use so it wouldnt replace

[correllium]

The way I did it was boot from the XP cd into the recovery console (press r once it finishes checking your hardware and stuff), hope that helps.

[f4lc0n]

did you have file protection diabled when you did this if so how did you turn it off because i tried doing what u said and it didnt work

[correllium]

No, I just did it like that and it worked. Try deleting shell32.dll from C:WINDOWSsystem32dllcache

[f4lc0n]

thanks i got it i accedentally replace shell32.dll with a backup of the original :)

[Shifty]

I've been messing around with shell32.dll and resource hacker, but i cant seem to change the icon that i want. when i select the replace icon option, i get a pop up that shows the icon group. Ive tried replacing it there, but it changes the icon in the icon (not icon group section) where its not supposed to be.

any suggestions?

-edit-

Ive gotten the icon group to change the right way, but to be sure and not waste my time, am i supposed to change the icon or the icon group??

[smaulz]

Hey guys, what are the chances of someone posting a step by step walk-through of the process? I've been messing with this one for weeks. I've got it so in My Computer, IE, etc, they show up the right (blue) icon. However, Windows Explorer in Detail view does not, and nothing I've tried works. I've gone through and changed a bunch of 'em one by one, but that's not gonna do. So if there's anyway at all to change the DEFAULT folder icon in Windows Explorer, please oh please lemme know... thx

[Miran]

correllium, could you maybe post your shell32.dll somewhere?

[McKrout]

may i ask, where did you get the os x folder icon, thats the one i havent been able to find

TS

[smaulz]

Holy KayRAPP... I did it... :D

Next question... aw nevermind, I'll start a new thread.... thanks for the info guys...

[mavis]

Here's a step by step if you guys want it... just played around with it last night and it worked! So I posted it here:

http://www.xp-erience.org/forum/showthread...=&threadid=2438

mavis

[i1135t]

  mavis said:

Here's a step by step if you guys want it... just played around with it last night and it worked! So I posted it here:

http://www.xp-erience.org/forum/showthread...=&threadid=2438

mavis

It looks like that link doesn't work... :no:

[NeoCosmo]

To edit registry.

[dreamz Veteran]

  i1135t said:

It looks like that link doesn't work... :no:

it was posted in 2002.

resurrecting old threads is not encouraged here.

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