let me guess you are having problems bec. of kb890047 right? gsm has a fix. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...ndpost&p=270159 try it out. I chicken out and decided to go with stardock iconpackager. i dont want to hack my new shell32 again. takes to long. And i m to lazy to do it. I just download the icons from wincustomize and use iconpackager to activate them. goood luck welcome to msfn.