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Changing icons in XP
Name: Paul44 Date: January 3, 2003 at 15:40:31 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: 1.3 Ghz 384 sdram
Comment:
Anyone know the reg hack to change the default icons in XP for "My Music" and "My Pictures", etc.?
Name: doc Date: January 3, 2003 at 16:07:18 Pacific
Reply:
Dont know the hack your looking for yet but heres a nice 30 day trial version of icon creating software I have been playing with for a few days now.
http://www.axialis.com/axicons/
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Response Number 2
Name: Ronnie Ratt Date: January 4, 2003 at 02:00:23 Pacific
Reply:
G'day Paul, if you get yourself Microangelo or similar you can directly change the icons in Shell32.dll where these two reside as well as any other icon you don't like in *.exe. *.dll *.cpl *.ocx *.drv files plus a few other types of libraries as well. You can even make your own icon libraries.
I don't think these two folders you mentioned have a registry DefaultIcon key for them but you might look at their desktop.ini files and see if you can alter their paths in those. You may have to delete the IconCache.db file [formally ShellIconCache file in 9x and found in \Username\Local Settings\Application Data folder] and reboot for them to work [maybe]
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