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A couple DLL Locations that Windows uses to display Icons from

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/11

This one most people know of:

  • %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll

But these files also provide icons:

  • %SystemRoot%\system32\filemgmt.dll
  • %SystemRoot%\system32\dsadmin.dll
  • %SystemRoot%\system32\els.dll

Various versions of Windows share the icon ID in those files, but have different visual content.

A tool like IconsExtract – Extract icon/cursor stored in EXE, DLL, OCX, CPL files can be used to view or extract those icons.

IconExtract works much better at finding the Index inside SHELL32.dll that is described at How Can I Change the Icon for an Existing Shortcut? – Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs.

Copyright issues might apply…

–jeroen

This entry was posted on 2013/03/11 at 06:00 and is filed under Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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