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Custom Icons for This PC 'Folders'
Custom Icons for This PC 'Folders'
----- I first posted this as a reply to a tutorial but then I noticed it is better suited here -----
First of all, thanks for this guide and all other guides that eliminate the junk that's just useless and irritating.
I don't need the Musik, Video or Desktop folder so I've already removed the Musik folder; the Desktop folder will also get removed after I tidy up the files there (img 1).
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But I would like to have a folder for Star Wars Battlefront II (a quite old game, but I still like playing it; especially with different mods/maps so I have quite a lot of files there that I would like to access quickly and easily).
For that I've simply renamed the Videos folder (img 1).
But as I am quite a perfectionist I would like to change the Videos icon for a Star Wars icon.
And this is where it gets a bit more complicated.
Firstly there are 2 different Properties tabs for the folder: one for My PC (img 2/left) and one for Users/Jippiee (img 2/right).
img 2
As you can tell, the properties window for Users/Jippiee (img 2/right) has the option for a Folder Icon but this only affects the folder in Users/Jippiee (img 3) (sadly ).
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The Option 'Folder pictures' (img 2) had only affected the Users/Jippiee (again ) and this only when set to at least medium icons (or maybe that was just the file inside ).
Then I started playing around with the desktop.ini file but with no luck.
img 4
The top two (img 4) are older backups, the bottom one is the current desktop.ini located in Users/Jippiee/Star Wars Battlefront II.
Unfortunately I only backed up the desktop.ini after renaming it through Properties.
For reference I'm adding the desktop.ini for Pictures (img 5) as that is about how the Videos looked at first with different nummbers.
img 5As far as I understand it the Name and Icon for the Folder are specified throuh the shell32.dll and imageres.dll (img 6).
img 6
To me it sounds logicaly to open shell32.dll/ imageres.dll and replace the Videos Icon with the Star Wars icon.
But I don't know how to open/edit .dll files or if that is even advisable (being OS and all).
So...
Do you see a posiblity for me to edit the desktop.ini to get the right Icon?
Do I have to edit the shell32.dll or imageres.dll (img 5) for this to work?
Is there an option through RegEdit?
I would really appriciate any kind of feedback on this
Last edited by jippiee; 10 Mar 2017 at 11:28.