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"Windows Icons"

A couple of weeks ago I found some of my Windows icons to be damaged (WinXP Home SP2), and am having some trouble in correcting them, which you can see an example of here:

[URL]http://www.aowl45.dsl.pipex.com/icons.png[/URL]
[URL]http://www.aowl45.dsl.pipex.com/icons2.png[/URL]

I've managed to correct the Paint Shop Pro icon on the desktop by re-creating a shortcut, but the other icons are harder to find and so re-creating the shortcuts are a problem.

Does anybody know where the Windows icons are stored, and if they are easily replaceable? For example, if were to find the location, and then overwrite them with a new icon, would it cause any problems within Windows?

I could be wrong, but from what I recall from college, some Windows icons are stored in a single dll / exe file, rather than individual icon images.

Thanks.

Cheers for that, although what I was trying to do was use Firefox's source viewer within IE, rather than Notepad++ within Firefox.

Cheers for the email as well, sorry I didn't reply soner.

cjh wrote:

> TweakUI is a great little addition, and I've already switched IE's
> view source option to use Notepad++. I had tried to find Firefox's
> view source file, as I still prefer it, but I think it's built in to
> the browsers main .exe file (corrections welcome if anybody knows
> which file it really is).

I'm not a FF expert but I do like Notepad++ (and believe I introduced it to members of this forum), to make Notepad++ my FF editor when you "View Page Source" I added this FF extension: [URL]https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Developer%20Tools&numpg=10&id=394[/URL]

Hope that's what you're after...

cjh wrote:
> I take it TweakUI is just a GUI for the Windows registry?

Yep, that's all it is - but it's a much easier way of going about things.

I think it was skyzyx ([URL]http://www.skyzyx.com/archives/000094.php[/URL]). There are one or two problems with it (conditional comments don't work, the browser will crash when trying to use the favourites folder via any browser that isn't the properly installed version) but overall the rendering engines seem to work as intended with each browser, which is a real help when building web pages.

I expect I'll install IE7 when it is available as BETA 2, and try out the multiple IE with v6, although for personal web browsing, I see no reason to go back to IE from Firefox.

TweakUI is a great little addition, and I've already switched IE's view source option to use Notepad++. I had tried to find Firefox's view source file, as I still prefer it, but I think it's built in to the browsers main .exe file (corrections welcome if anybody knows which file it really is).

I take it TweakUI is just a GUI for the Windows registry?

cjh wrote:
> Perfect Hmmm, a quick download and a click of a button and they were
> all sorted, thanks.

Yay, another TweakUI adopter. Used to use TweakXP but got fed up with paying for it and finally settled back to TweakUI.

Twain wrote:
> Can I just ask why you have so many different Internet Explorer's?

For the same reason I do, for testing. Thanks to a site (whch escapes me now) it allows you to download older versions of IE and run them locally without actually installing them. I'm currently doing the same hting with IE7. I have 6 installed, but run 4, 5, 5.5 & 7 from local folders.

Can I just ask why you have so many different Internet Explorer's?

No problem...

TweakUI contains a few things you might find useful.

Perfect Hmmm, a quick download and a click of a button and they were all sorted, thanks.

MS TweakUI from MS Powertoys for XP has a Rebuild ICON feature.
Let me know if you need the MS link if you don't already use TweakUI.