My Custom Shell32.dll

hi again........well......i'd like to try to customize a shell32.dll myself.....so i need a bit of help.....

yesterday loofygum gave me thisURL

that shows each icon numeber inside a shell32.dll file....

now i've downlaoded the shell32.dll file in THIS post

opened with reshack and found that these numbers are differet

plus...i notice that any incon is repeated 3 times one smaller of the others

what does it mean?

can anyone help me about this??

another thing is that tryin' to replacing icons directly with ICONFILE, most of the times when the icon is replaced it looks blurred and badly drowned.......why??

please help me!

thanx ya all

#64816

The numbers in the image i posted isn't same as in shell32.dll. The icons in the image are in the same order as in Icon group in shell32.dll. The image just helps you see which icons to change.

You can see some icons many times because that's the way it is . Microsoft has made it so that some icons are repeated. I can't answer why, but maybe one of our experts (points at contra and stevie) can explain this.

I'm not sure what you mean with that ICONFILE -thingy. Maybe somebody else does :/

PS. The shell file you downloaded is already modded, all you have to do is replace the file in your system32 folder. I suggest that you use replacer, i posted link to it in the other thread.

#64821

mm

what i meant is that:

i'd like to modify the olready modded shell32 that i told before

i'd like to change just a few icons

but the numbers in the icon group are not corresponding to the numbers of the image, so i don't know exactly where to search.......

i'm also wondering if i have a .png file that i like, how can i use it as icon?

#64823

When you open up the shell32 file with Resource Hacker, you'll notice there are the sections Icon and Icon Group. Like what LoofyGun has said, the number in the picture/image corresponds to the icon group number, not the icon number. And when you replace icons by selecting the Action --> Replace Icon function, the number here refers again to the Icon Group number. That's why the image is handy.

The blurred look you get is most probably due to the fact that the icons you have do not contain the size that you are displaying your Windows icons in. That is, suppose you set the size of your desktop icons to be at 72x72. But if the maximum size that is contained in the icons you have in your collection is 64x64, then in displaying your desktop icons, Windows resizes the 64x64 to be 72x72, which results in a blurred look. The solution would be to get good quality icons that contain the sizes between 128x128 to 16x16. A good check that these sizes are in the icon itself is to take a look at how much physical space that icon occupies. It should be exactly 158kb.

For PNGs, you have to convert these to the Windows icom format (*.ico). You can use either Axialis Iconworkshop (shareware) or IconSushi (freeware) for this purpose.

#64837

ok.....i think i've understood somethig

so now i'll make some try

thanx u very much for helping me

#64909