Question About Custom Icons

[almulder]

I have been looking around for a way to have all icons from windows to be changed to custom icons upon install with a unatended cd. I don't know even how to change them manualy. There are programs that change the for me when I runn the program. I check to see what files are modified when it is don but no luck. I have been searching for about 3 hours on the net, but unable to find out anything.

Please help.

Thankx

Albert

[tguy]

To change the icon manually, right-click on the icon or shortcut and click the change icon button.

To do it automatically, I have used a vb script:

Set Shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

DesktopPath = Shell.SpecialFolders("AllUsersDesktop")

Set link = Shell.CreateShortcut(DesktopPath & "\TDSL.lnk")

link.Arguments = "/c g7ggat.def /D /s g7ggat /i tdsl"

link.Description = "TDSL link"

link.HotKey = "CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+T"

link.IconLocation = "c:\glwin\gl.exe,24"

link.TargetPath = "C:\GLWIN\gl.exe"

link.WindowStyle = 1

link.WorkingDirectory = "c:\glwin"

link.Save

You set the icon you want to use on the link.IconLocation line, the number 24 represents the 24th icon in the library which is the one I wanted to use.

Good luck.

[SiMoNsAyS]

to change my comp, docs, network places and recycle bin icons use a .theme file.

find a template on the net, and apply the theme using winnt.sif, you'll find interesting a recent post about use a "custom my docs icon", search for it.

if you want to go further, like new icons for filetypes or drives, you better replace the icons stored on shell32.dll, then modifype+makecab. for 1 person this could be a lot of work and requires some advanced knowledges so you better search for a "shell pack".