Win7 to 10, Uninstalled CustoPack Tools now I'm stuck with Win 7 Icons

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  1. Posts : 5
    Windows 10 Pro 20H2
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    Win7 to 10, Uninstalled CustoPack Tools now I'm stuck with Win 7 Icons


    Recently, finally, upgraded to Win 10 from Win 7. I'd used CustoPack Tools to run a custom theme on Win 7, foolishly I didn't uninstall this program prior to upgrading to Win 10. I uninstalled via it's included uninstaller not long after upgrading and in the process it restores Windows to it's default. I guess it restored it to a Win 7 default because all the default system icons are the ones from Windows 7 not Windows 10. I'm not sure how to revert this.

    Win7 to 10, Uninstalled CustoPack Tools now I'm stuck with Win 7 Icons-win7iconsexample.jpg

    You can see from the Download folder under Quick Access as well as the older style folder thumnails and the big ugly blue thumbtacks on Quick Access.

    Another thing is I can't for the life of me figure out why the Downloads folder under Quick Access won't change. I've managed to customize every other folder and Brink's guide on replacing the "This PC" set of folder shortcuts but it won't reflect on that specific folder under Quick Access.

    I've also used Brink's two .bat files to delete and refresh the thumnails cache and the icons cache (which apparently didn't exist in the first place) and no changes. Anyone have any ideas?
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  2. Posts : 1,777
    Windows 11 [21H2]
       #2

    You need to change the shell32.dll file in the System32 folder.
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  3. Posts : 5
    Windows 10 Pro 20H2
    Thread Starter
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    jbcarreon123 said:
    You need to change the shell32.dll file in the System32 folder.
    Thanks for the quick response, what do you mean by change it? Also I checked imageres.dll in System32 and it's using all the old Windows 7 icons. Can I delete it or somehow make Windows restore it to the Win10 version?
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  4. Posts : 1,777
    Windows 11 [21H2]
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    You can do that, but if you have an Windows 10 Installation media. You can't just delete a system file and say it just fine.. Also, you can also do "In-place Upgrade". Search on the Tutorials for that.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Or you can do this,
    Download SevenTheme Ultimate (latest version) on Customization, extract the files, go to Icon Changer, run Icon Changer.exe then click Restore then restart your pc when completed.
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  5. Posts : 5
    Windows 10 Pro 20H2
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    jbcarreon123 said:
    Or you can do this,
    Download SevenTheme Ultimate (latest version) on Customization, extract the files, go to Icon Changer, run Icon Changer.exe then click Restore then restart your pc when completed.
    That was a good idea but it didn't fix the issue. I'm guessing because it's restoring the imageres.dll.mun file and not the old imageres.dll file. I looked it up and apparently Windows shouldn't be pulling icons from System32/imageres.dll at all and should be pulling everything from System Resources/imageres.dll.mun. That switch was make in Win10 version 1903.

    Checking with ResourceHacker imageres.dll has all the old Windows 7 icons, imageres.dll.mun has all the modern Win 10 icons. So it's definitely still pulling from imageres.dll when it should be pulling from dll.mun.

    I'm guessing that this has been an issue since I upgraded to Win10 and I just didn't notice it since CustoPack Tools was hiding the pin icons under Quick Access that made me realize they were the old icons. Does anyone know what to do in this situation?
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    Windows 11 Pro 64-bit
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  7. Posts : 5
    Windows 10 Pro 20H2
    Thread Starter
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    This is just restoring them to the default Win 7 style they had previously. Could it be a registry issue where the old Win 7 registry entries are linking to the older .dlls like System32/imageres.dll?
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  8. Posts : 5,299
    Windows 11 Pro 64-bit
       #8

    Execute Sfc /scannow command and see restoring icons helps.
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  9. Posts : 1,777
    Windows 11 [21H2]
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    FreeBooter said:
    Execute Sfc /scannow command and see restoring icons helps.
    Your right. SFC will find problematic files and fixes them.
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  10. Posts : 16,784
    Windows 10 Home x64 Version 22H2 Build 19045.4170
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    SwissArmyKnife said:
    Checking with ResourceHacker imageres.dll has all the old Windows 7 icons, imageres.dll.mun has all the modern Win 10 icons. So it's definitely still pulling from imageres.dll when it should be pulling from dll.mun.
    ... Does anyone know what to do in this situation?
    The files we traditionally regard as being the icon files [such as shell32.dll, imageres.dll] no longer hold any icons at all.
    - They now merely silently redirect to the corresponding .dll.mun.
    - So when you think you are looking at icons in shell32.dll, you are not.
    - When you assign an icon from shell32.dll, you are not doing so but it looks like you are.
    - This change started with an earlier Version but was not a single grand change. There have been changes gradually over the last few versions and nobody knows if the changeover is yet finished.
    - The sizes bounce around all over the place - I checked during v1909 and shell32.dll was 4KB whilst it is now 7MB [and is slightly different on two seemingly identical computers].
    - Imageres.dll is still down to 3KB and is dated Dec 2019.

    My own shell32.dll files are dated [modified & created] at the date-time of the last CU. So I suspect that the next Cumulative update will overwrite your shell32.dll.

    Now that you have removed that custom icon utility, you might try a Repair install to see if it will overwrite the icon files. I have not heard anybody report on such a specialist aspect of it so have no idea if it will do anything useful in your case.
    Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade - TenForumsTutorials
    You will have to repeat the latest CU afterwards.

    Best of luck,
    Denis
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