M_win Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 i was wondering if anyone new anyone who modded explorer like the dude who made the 256 color support patch. i mean like toolbars without internet explorer and newer folder icons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGx Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 Windows Explorer [%windir%\explore.exe] icons are set in:- AUTORUN.INF files [in the root dir of each drive/partition] = drive icons:http://www.mdgx.com/newtip6.htm#NEWDRIVE- DESKTOP.INI files [in each dir] = folder icons:http://www.mdgx.com/newtip6.htm#NEWFOLDor hardwired in SHELL32.DLL.Some system icons are set in the registry as values pointing to system files [examples]:REGEDIT4[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\Drive\DefaultIcon]@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,8"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\Folder\DefaultIcon]@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,3"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,17"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon]@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,31""empty"="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,31""full"="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,32"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,-137"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,-138"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{5ef4af3a-f726-11d0-b8a2-00c04fc309a4}\DefaultIcon]@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,-33"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{1A9BA3A0-143A-11CF-8350-444553540000}\DefaultIcon]@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,-173"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{1f4de370-d627-11d1-ba4f-00a0c91eedba}\DefaultIcon]@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,-135"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{e17d4fc0-5564-11d1-83f2-00a0c90dc849}\DefaultIcon]@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,-134"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{B005E690-678D-11d1-B758-00A0C90564FE}\DefaultIcon]@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,-173"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{6DFD7C5C-2451-11d3-A299-00C04F8EF6AF}\DefaultIcon]@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,-210"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{0DF44EAA-FF21-4412-828E-260A8728E7F1}\DefaultIcon]@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SHELL32.DLL,-40";One can either use custom INF and/or INI files, or hex-mod SHELL32.DLL using Resource Hacker or similar tool:http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#HEXI bet Virtual Plastic web site has at least 1 page dedicated to this purpose:http://www.virtualplastic.net/PS:I modded my shell32.dll ver 4.72.3812.600 [using Win98 SE] to use most icons from WinXP.Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kartel Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 Looking for this ? Go here http://www.dr-hoiby.com/TrayIconIn256Color/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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