Changing "windows Explorer" Program/taskbar Icon

Hiyas,

I'm trying to change the "Windows Explorer" program icon (the top left hand corner icon) to one of my own choice. I already know its using an icon from shell32.dll and would like to change it to another which is in shell32.dll (I'm using one of the variations of the SNOW E.2 shell32.dll files). So far I've looked in the windows registry in the CLSID section looking at DefaultIcon, but haven't found the Windows Explorer one...

I've been searching everywhere with all sorts of strings and keywords to find a solution to this, any help would be greatly appreciated!

#70836

on my non-sp1 machine, it's icon group #46. Not sure it there's any difference between xp and xpsp1.

edit: you're going to have to use resource hacker for this, I doubt you'll be able to find anything useful in the registry.

#70851

Ahh thanks for that, I'll just directly edit the shell32.dll file and change the 46th icon to the one I want, I'll give that a try thanks!

#70854

The 46th icon group, not the 46th icon.

#70856

Good thing you said that too, I going thru a few hundred icons looking (Y)

#70860

That did the trick, saving the icon resources and then replacing them worked perfectly, thanks again!

#70918