Replaced Shell32.dll Problems

Ok, I replaced my shell32.dll with the snow shell32.dll from the folks at the Hardware Geeks.com forums. They had both the 1106 and 1145 versions posted.

When I went to replace my own dlls, I found I had both versions.

The 1145 in my System32 folder, and the 1106 in my ServicePackFiles\i386 folder. I did not have a shell32.dll in my dllcache folder.

So, I replaced the 1145 with the new 1145, and same with the 1106.

Now, my icons are like this:

When I view my C:\ drive from Explorer, the icons haven't changed. But when I go to open a file from another program, the files changed.

Yes, I did try putting the 1145 in each folder. Didn't work. Haven't tried the 1106 in both, didn't know what that might do to my computer

Thanks for any help!

#30928

you should try to "rebuild the icon cache" it's an option that some apps such as iconpackager or tweak UI power toys has both, cos sometimes XP keeps in memory your old icons even if you've changed it <_

#30934

Ahh! Thanks!

That worked for most of the files, but doesn't this package come with a picture for .jpgs and .bmps? Those are the only icons that seemed to not change. If not, then it worked, hehe.

Thanks again

#30950

i depends if you have an edior like photoshop who takes care of picture files, but i don't think the icons for bmp & jpeg are in shell 32, it's in an obscure DLL somewhere can't remember...