is the sound tray icon in sndvol32.exe because i tried changing some of the icons and then swaping the sndvol32.exe file and its stil the old icon in the system tray

You need to replace all 5 icon groups in sndvol32.exe with the ones you want.

Example:

I "borrowed" the icon groups from WinXP sndvol32.exe and put them into WinME sndvol32.exe, which I'm using in Win98 SE.

I use Resource Hacker [freeware]:

http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

BTW:

98SE2ME:

http://www.msfn.org/board/?showtopic=46349

also replaces 98SE sndvol32.exe with the 1 from WinME setup CD.

Hope this helps.

You need systray.exe!

I don't use systray.exe to load sndvol32.exe or anything else for that matter.

I use TrayIcon [3rd party freeware tool]:

http://www.infobro.com/anon-FTP/Old_Files/trayicon.zip

which can create direct shortcuts to anything on your hard drives.

So I made a shortcut to sndvol32.exe.

That's why I replaced the ugly sndvol32 icons with the XP ones.

HTH

I wanna change my speaker Icon in the system tray to the lil black 1 from WinXP

what file is it systray.exe or sndvol32.exe ?

its systray.exe