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Where's the master recipe for "USE this Icon HERE"?
For months now I have been puttzing with making and assigning my own icons to my Win10 folders/files/apps.etc. I've made these changes through standard win OS interface options as well as a handful of well meaning 3rd party software programs. I've ticked away at all the little mistakes one can make and have learned the basics of this customizing process.
What I can't seem to do is:
1) Create a .dll of icons that "STICK" for multiple days. Every day I start-up I find files, folders, programs which have 'changed back' or changed completely to some other icon in the particular .dll I'm currently using as my MASTER collection.
2) I know now to never add, replace, rename, or in any way change the basic structure of my .dll. I had to start over many times, but am coming close to a file library I'd like to KEEP.
And that means; being able to store this ONE .dll (or this one SET) of icons to be the master source for every .ico I can customize. I'd like to be able to call this .dll up (restore) at any time after a change and restore how my icons looked yesterday. Is is a particular challenge to me when Windows Insider Updates can upgrade/re-write my OS and throw DOZENS of my icons off.
3) I think, and can only guess at this point based on how I've learned this works, that there are MANY .dlls throughout the system that Windows calls on to store/assign icons.
SO...where I MY changes being stored? I can't find a "new" .dll anywhere (or, which is the intent) find any file that reflects my daily changes. In the simplest terms, I'm looking for whatever/wherever windows stores and refers to the specific icons made and stored and assigned throug MY .dll. Where is the master recipe? All if this works is useless if I can't find a way to call up and re-assign the icons I was using yesterday.
Make sense?
Any ideas?
Kevin
Windows Restore is not the answer.