resource consumption Option 1 or 2

[centrosaurus]

Hey,

I am trying to change icons of my operating system Windows98SE manually.

Should i

1. Make a dll file with all the icons in it and then refer to this file for each icon in the registry. More like how the operating system does like shell32.dll...

or

2. Just use each icon and refer to it individually in the registry.

Question is which option will take least cpu time and memory.

I am not a programmer. But i had this idea and was not sure.

[LLXX]

A single DLL with all the icons will take less space in total if you plan to have a large number of icons. (The DLL itself is larger than the filesizes of all the iconfiles combined, but it only takes one directory entry whereas the separate files will themselves take up one directory entry each (32 bytes minimum + entries for long filenames).

[centrosaurus]

A single DLL with all the icons will take less space in total if you plan to have a large number of icons. (The DLL itself is larger than the filesizes of all the iconfiles combined, but it only takes one directory entry whereas the separate files will themselves take up one directory entry each (32 bytes minimum + entries for long filenames).