Changing Open folder icon

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cpemma wrote:
> I've been trying to change this using the registry edit to add a
> string key "4" = "iconpath\iconfile" to the Explorer/ShellIcons bit
> as googled from various places, even trying a vbs script found at one
> site (David Candy's? Kelly's Korner?).
>
> Used TweakuiXP to refresh the icon cache, rebooted, no change in the
> icon. In the same registry position is the TweakuiXP hack to remove
> the shortcut arrow, same syntax, working fine.
>
> Is this a hack that SP2 has stopped working? OS is the latest XP Home
> with SP2 pre-fitted.

If you are having problems, I can recommend the following program. Works
very well to change virtually any icon on the system.

Stardock: IconPackager:
http://www.stardock.com/products/iconpackager/


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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"cpemma" <cpemma@mexbro.co.uk> wrote in message
news:tPCdnfEer9betxDcRVnyjg@pipex.net...
> I've been trying to change this using the registry edit to add a string
> key "4" = "iconpath\iconfile" to the Explorer/ShellIcons bit as googled
> from various places, even trying a vbs script found at one site (David
> Candy's? Kelly's Korner?).
>
> Used TweakuiXP to refresh the icon cache, rebooted, no change in the icon.
> In the same registry position is the TweakuiXP hack to remove the shortcut
> arrow, same syntax, working fine.
>
> Is this a hack that SP2 has stopped working? OS is the latest XP Home with
> SP2 pre-fitted (v2002).
The plot thickens. The changed open folder icon shows when browsing to a
folder using the old Win9x 'Send to...any folder' PowerToy, but *not* in
Explorer, Regedit or when browsing to a folder in WinZip and various Install
programs I've just tried.

Could it be these aren't using the Shell32.dll icons post-SP2?

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"cpemma" <cpemma@mexbro.co.uk> wrote
| "cpemma" <cpemma@mexbro.co.uk> wrote
| > I've been trying to change this using the registry edit to add a string
| > key "4" = "iconpath\iconfile" to the Explorer/ShellIcons bit as googled
| > from various places, even trying a vbs script found at one site (David
| > Candy's? Kelly's Korner?).
| >
| > Used TweakuiXP to refresh the icon cache, rebooted, no change in the icon.
| > In the same registry position is the TweakuiXP hack to remove the shortcut
| > arrow, same syntax, working fine.
| >
| > Is this a hack that SP2 has stopped working? OS is the latest XP Home with
| > SP2 pre-fitted (v2002).
| The plot thickens. The changed open folder icon shows when browsing to a
| folder using the old Win9x 'Send to...any folder' PowerToy, but *not* in
| Explorer, Regedit or when browsing to a folder in WinZip and various Install
| programs I've just tried.
|
| Could it be these aren't using the Shell32.dll icons post-SP2?


Try refreshing the IconCache via...

Control Panel
Display
Appearance
Advanced
Item: Icon
Size: <decrease current value by one>
OK
OK

Control Panel
Display
Appearance
Advanced
Item: Icon
Size: <increase value by one>
OK
OK

Also, because you used TweakuiXP to refresh the icon cache,
you may need to repair these settings in REGEDIT...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\desktop\WindowMetrics

DWORD Value Shell Icon BPP
Value Data 16

DWORD Value Shell Icon Size
Value Data 32

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PS Regedit uses its own icons stored in the exe file.

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"cpemma" <cpemma@mexbro.co.uk> wrote in message news:s7ednb6HCf4LPRPcRVnytg@pipex.net...
> "cpemma" <cpemma@mexbro.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:tPCdnfEer9betxDcRVnyjg@pipex.net...
>> I've been trying to change this using the registry edit to add a string
>> key "4" = "iconpath\iconfile" to the Explorer/ShellIcons bit as googled
>> from various places, even trying a vbs script found at one site (David
>> Candy's? Kelly's Korner?).
>>
>> Used TweakuiXP to refresh the icon cache, rebooted, no change in the icon.
>> In the same registry position is the TweakuiXP hack to remove the shortcut
>> arrow, same syntax, working fine.
>>
>> Is this a hack that SP2 has stopped working? OS is the latest XP Home with
>> SP2 pre-fitted (v2002).
> The plot thickens. The changed open folder icon shows when browsing to a
> folder using the old Win9x 'Send to...any folder' PowerToy, but *not* in
> Explorer, Regedit or when browsing to a folder in WinZip and various Install
> programs I've just tried.
>
> Could it be these aren't using the Shell32.dll icons post-SP2?
>
>

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David Candy wrote:
> It works for me but it has to be exactly right. What exactly have you
> done.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Icons]
"4"="C:\\Windows\\system32\\shell32.dll,110"
"3"=""
"29"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\tweakui.exe,3"

Above is the exported reg file - only single backslashes in Regedit and no
quotes. The shortcut arrow diversion added by TweakuiXP works OK.

I used a different shell32.dll icon (110) to ensure the correct icon
format - it's a folder with a tick so appropriate - but using the download
green folder icon file makes no difference to the results.

After refreshing icon cache and a reboot for good luck, the changed icon
shows if I open 'Send to any folder' from the desktop and browse the tree
view, as http://www.mexbro.co.uk/bit/tick_ok.jpg

However, running normal 2-pane Explorer it's not there in tree view when I
open a folder, and running 'Send to any folder' in the Explorer pane, it's
now no longer shown on the browse tree view after opening a target as shown
http://www.mexbro.co.uk/bit/no_tick.jpg

Weird.

Question - what does specifying a negative number for an icon in a set do?

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I'll think about the rest as I'm about to go to bed. Positive numbers are the order of icons in a file (starting at 0). Negative numbers are the icon resource number (defined by the programmer). Note the +/- is a regedit syntax for positive order in file or positive the resource number. That is - 207 means the resource +207 (as resources are all positive). Only MS tends to use the resource number. Resources are tyhe menus, icons, accelerators, strings, etc in a file.

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"cpemma" <cpemma@mexbro.co.uk> wrote in message news:-9KdnZ86vdP8Ig3cRVnyiA@pipex.net...
> David Candy wrote:
>> It works for me but it has to be exactly right. What exactly have you
>> done.
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
> Icons]
> "4"="C:\\Windows\\system32\\shell32.dll,110"
> "3"=""
> "29"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\tweakui.exe,3"
>
> Above is the exported reg file - only single backslashes in Regedit and no
> quotes. The shortcut arrow diversion added by TweakuiXP works OK.
>
> I used a different shell32.dll icon (110) to ensure the correct icon
> format - it's a folder with a tick so appropriate - but using the download
> green folder icon file makes no difference to the results.
>
> After refreshing icon cache and a reboot for good luck, the changed icon
> shows if I open 'Send to any folder' from the desktop and browse the tree
> view, as http://www.mexbro.co.uk/bit/tick_ok.jpg
>
> However, running normal 2-pane Explorer it's not there in tree view when I
> open a folder, and running 'Send to any folder' in the Explorer pane, it's
> now no longer shown on the browse tree view after opening a target as shown
> http://www.mexbro.co.uk/bit/no_tick.jpg
>
> Weird.
>
> Question - what does specifying a negative number for an icon in a set do?
>
>

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"Ronnie Vernon MVP" <ronv@mvps.org> wrote in message
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| cpemma wrote:
| > I've been trying to change this using the registry edit to
add a
| > string key "4" = "iconpath\iconfile" to the
Explorer/ShellIcons bit
| > as googled from various places, even trying a vbs script
found at one
| > site (David Candy's? Kelly's Korner?).
| >
| > Used TweakuiXP to refresh the icon cache, rebooted, no change
in the
| > icon. In the same registry position is the TweakuiXP hack to
remove
| > the shortcut arrow, same syntax, working fine.
| >
| > Is this a hack that SP2 has stopped working? OS is the latest
XP Home
| > with SP2 pre-fitted.
|
| If you are having problems, I can recommend the following
program. Works
| very well to change virtually any icon on the system.
|
| Stardock: IconPackager:
| http://www.stardock.com/products/iconpackager/
|
|
| --
|
| Ronnie Vernon
| Microsoft MVP
| Windows Shell/User
|


Caution: I've found Stardock stuff to be somewhar unreliable -
test well first before continuing. Run all your intensive stuff
& put thru their paces. It's not initially evident for whatever
reason.


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