Heya Brink! I'm having trouble with this, at first it said you had published this (the forum site said, yeah that's right, it told me so...! lol but seriously...) on March 12th of 2017, but now I realize that might just have been a touchup or edit because now I se it was back in 2015...BUT I DIGRESS!

I can't get any of the methods to work for existing/built-in non-new libraries, i.e. Videos, Music, etc. I tried Icon Changer App, doesn't seem to be working, and the direct XML edit only works now on New-Libraries, but not on the built-in libraries, I feel there must have been a change in a recent build that has changed this and so MS might be changing some things around a little. Can you confirm this behavior for me, and let me know if you know the possible work-around for this customization activity? I've changed my drive icons through registry, I was wondering if the keys exist for these and are now "hard-coded" in there to prevent all but the most serious and determined customizers... lol Let me know when you get a chance, no rush at all... :) I would have sent you a PM but I'm still too Noob to do that, I'll work on getting my lazy butt into some question answering and such to rectify that.

BTW I've used SO MANY COUNTLESS of your guides and insight across all the Win*forums (lol I did that purely by accident with the wildcard just now but I thought I'd leave it in for a chuckle) and it has been more than a lifesaver at times. I've rescued my system more than a few times thanks to some insights I gained through your tutorials and mentions especially with bcdedit and bootsect and reagent etc. Recently I HAD A DOOZY of a downed system, all purely my fault, but I noticed in my searches that others seemed to face the same issue surrounding modification to boot-time services and specification of load type in the registry, so I might post something about it, it's just a rough one because you have to do it with no RE available then resurrect, pray, and then do some manual Hive edits, etc. , but I digress...again. Sorry. But, to sum up, 40 reboots later, 2.5 days, 1 case of Red Bull, and 4 gallons of sweat later...I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, pressed power and kept my eyes closed because I was sure my latest attempt was going to fail, instead 5 seconds later....windows startup sound....sweet. It was a final change I made with insight from one of your posts, so hugz, and thanks.

Note: Macrium made things worse (not it's fault completely), and then I made it worse...otherwise probably would have only been down a day...and none if I wasn't trying to optimize and customize to the hilt... However Macrium Free is pretty darn nifty now that I have everything sorted things out so thanks for that tip too!

Hope you are having an excellent day!

Windows Info:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version 10.0.14393 Build 14393


Spikeypup/Patrick

Hello Patrick, :)

Yeah, I'm always updating or adding to the tutorials.

I've just test Option Four to see if anything may have changed, but it still works as outlined in the steps. You might try Option Four again, but be sure to follow the steps exactly, or it won't work.

If you still have any issue, then please post back with details about any step or part you may be having trouble with. Be sure that you restart the explorer process (or restart computer) to apply.

I can confirm that option 4 does indeed work, but only with new libraires, it doesn't allow me to DnD the existing icon, say Music into Notepad, it gives me the whole DO/NOT donut with bacon laying across it...

OK HOOOOLLLLDDD UP! I just started making a video to illustrate this issue for you, and I'll be damned if it allowed me to drag and drop it... something earlier must have been preventing it, but I don't know the context and what, strange. I'm going to restart soon anyway, things have been wonky all day.
Also I'm dumb, I forgot to restart explorer.exe, at the same time, the icons changed with icon changer earlier did in fact finally change, it just took some time. On that note...I often have to wait some time when making icon changes, or for example when I empty the trashcan, the icon I have set for emptied trash doesn't appear for quite some time, unless I F5 the desktop, however, if I use the default icons it's immediate. Any thoughts?

So the library icons have indeed changed in the path "%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries", however in the photo below you can see it isn't updated in the Navigation Pane within Explorer it hasn't changed, also see the second photo showing those folders, I wonder if they are referenced differently somehow in the OS.... Perhaps there is a refresh interval for these



OK... so I just tried to do it again DnD, and it wouldn't allow the dragdrop. Same DONOT circle thingy and Access Denied error. Something's not right. I will reboot and get right back to you. if I don't, something bad happened... lol

Edit: I think that the references for those folders eventually refer back to NTFS links right, which lead to C:\documents and settings\user, so I wonder if some of those links represent links, and some represent the NTFS link and that's why some change and some don't? Just a thought before I reboot...

You'll have to drag and drop them from that very specific location, or it won't let you drag and drop them. I find it best to copy and paste the location in the step into the address bar of File Explorer and press Enter.

In your screenshot, the folders under "This PC" in the navigation pane wouldn't be for the libraries if that is what you meant. The tutorial below can help show you how to see libraries in the navigation pane.

Hide or Show Libraries in Navigation Pane in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Customization Tutorials

Ok so weird... YES I'M GONNA REBOOT but check this out... look at the icons if you look at my pc through the Homegroup....weird.

I did use precisely that location, so strange, because I tried it again, and now it works. Something is definitely not right. As for the Nav pane maybe I didn't explain it well, but this last post above should show you what I meant, I wanted those references there to look just like it shows my computer in Homegroup, yet the local "This PC" as you see, didn't show them that way...anyway rebooting brb.. Thanks so much for your time btw! I feel like I am chatting with a celebrity! :)

Ooops and I forgot to mention that these folders are what's bugging me mostly too:

It's always a pleasure to help. :)

Homegroup in the navigation pane includes the libraries you set to share with the homegroup, so it's normal for their icons to be changed as well.

Sorry for the constant posts. I guess what I meant were these in particular, but I just realized obviously they are different than libraries as you eluded to, are these the NTFS links then that I was talking about, so these will probably need a registry change? Anyway any thoughts are appreciated...now I will reboot, see below for what I was talking about, sorry rushing so I didn't crop it after I realized my alt-prtscr was sans the alt lol.

OK now I'm gonna reboot, just saw your reply, I have tried using that method, it doesn't seem to work for me, but clearly on some items it has. I probably just need a reboot, and for whatever reason my PC takes it's time with icon changes, maybe a cache rebuild is in order? Any quick bat or script or method sir?