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August 30th, 2023, 05:35 PM
#1
 [RESOLVED] When All Else Fails, Ask the Experts
I always like to change some of the shortcut icons on my desktop. But windows 10 has a very limited selection. But windows 7 has quite a variety. One time, a number of years ago, I figured out how to copy the windows 7 shortcut icons into the windows 10 shortcut directory. It was somewhere in system32, a .dll
However, I have since forgotten how to do that. I tried doing it recently from a win7 pc & wound up losing the file altogether.
Now the windows 7 only has the same icons as windows 10, very few... To make sure of clarity here, we are talking about shortcut icons, not regular desktop icons. I tried to find them on the web, no success as yet. Any help. Thanks much....
Where there's a will, there's a way 
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August 30th, 2023, 07:31 PM
#2
Shortcut icons and desktop icons would normally be the same thing. Windows 7 and Windows 10 may have different images for the same icon however.
Possibly useful link:
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/wher...-native-icons/
Note that you should always make a backup copy, in a safe location that Windows will not try to overwrite, like on a different drive, before replacing any icon files. Also note that if you perform the Change Icon function for a shortcut, you do not have actually replace the Windows 10 version of that file containing the images, you can copy the Windows 7 version to a different folder (NOT system32, maybe a WIn7 folder that you create), and use the icons from the file that you place there.
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August 30th, 2023, 07:32 PM
#3
I'm guessing that you want to know which icons are in the different System32 dll files?
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/wher...-native-icons/
You could probably try copying a Win7 version of the file to a different folder. I wouldn't overwrite the Win10 version with the Win7 version.
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August 31st, 2023, 05:43 AM
#4
What I want to know is : how to copy one [%systemroot%\system32\imageres.dll] from one PC & add to another.
I have long lost track on how to do this. I have a pc that has a full list of shortcut icons & I want to add them to one that doesn't.....
Where there's a will, there's a way
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August 31st, 2023, 09:50 AM
#5
Icons no longer in imageres.dll in Windows 10 1903 - 4kb file
https://superuser.com/questions/1480268/icons-no-longer-in-imageres-dll-in-windows-10-1903-4kb-file
If you're happy and you know it......it's your meds.
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August 31st, 2023, 01:40 PM
#6
FIXED! Got all the icons I need now. Worked just like it did in the past. Thanks for all the input........
Where there's a will, there's a way
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