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Hagow
21st July 2007, 04:16 PM
I downloaded a bunch of nice glass icon set and would like to replace the existing WM6 icons such as MEI and other programs. What is the easiest method of doing this? I did a search but found no results. Any help would be appreciate it.
levenum
21st July 2007, 10:26 PM
To change icons in start menu you need to replace the icons on shortcuts by changing the *.lnk files in windows\start menu and its sub-folders.

Just add a ',' (coma) to the end of the text in the file followed by the name of the icon file. You could also look for apps that make shortcuts on PPC. There are even some free ones.

But if you want to change icons of today plugins and other system icons you need to unsign, res-edit then resign some DLLs and that's not an easy process.
Hagow
21st July 2007, 10:56 PM
Darn it, check this out i got these awsome icons i wanna use.

Link: http://solsie.com/glass-icons-ms-windows/
levenum
22nd July 2007, 10:18 PM
Ok so these are program icons. No problem there - just get a good graphics app to shrink them to 32x32 pixels and save as *.ico (windows icon format).
Check out GIMP, its free and supports many formats including *.ico and *.png
Then change the shortcuts in start menu.
Like I said before there are several apps (sorry, don't remember their names) that will let you do it easily.
IronRed
14th December 2007, 05:55 PM
But if you want to change icons of today plugins and other system icons you need to unsign, res-edit then resign some DLLs and that's not an easy process

The above is what I want to do, can you point me in that direction.
IronRed
14th December 2007, 08:49 PM
YES!!!!, I was able to copy the .png file to my storage card. Then using total commander, I was able to MOVE the file to the windows directory overwriting the original file. Then I did a soft reset to make sure it stuck, and it DID!!!
SimpleSurfer
2nd January 2008, 12:30 AM
any chance you want to post the files that you used to overwrite the system files :D

thank you!
BlackBox77
16th March 2008, 09:40 PM
I`m intrested too! Thanks! ;)
tom13mcpherson
13th May 2010, 01:41 PM
YES!!!!, I was able to copy the .png file to my storage card. Then using total commander, I was able to MOVE the file to the windows directory overwriting the original file. Then I did a soft reset to make sure it stuck, and it DID!!!

Can you tell me what the location was that you copied to - all I can find is the hklm etc etc and it wont let me move to there