[Paul]

[Steve]

Great, running the soft7 theme now, but the superbar icons aren't updating. Help?

EDIT: Sorted.

[Diamond]

great tuturial, but I knew most of the stuff mentioned in there but I got another question. I'm trying to change the icons for skype, download folder and the games icon in the start menu. When I right-click skype and then properties "change icon" is greyed out, so I gotta probably change it via regedit. Does anybody know the path to change the icon for it ? Same for download folder icon and games icon?

[Loebl]

ok i am currently fooling arounf with that
in the system32 directory there are maaaaaaaany things to find
gameux.dll contains the icon for the games-menu. Or to be more specific contains that icon in all its variants, 4 Bit to 32 Bit depth and various sizes
and with that info I searched the registry and was able to find "something":
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\GameNewsFiles
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\GameStatisticsFiles
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\GameUpdateFiles
there you will find keys with the name icon path which by default points to gameux.dll and resource number 203 which is the symbol from the startmenu when hovering games. Now you have two possibilities: change the icon in gameux.dll or try what happens if you change the registry to pointig to an .ico file with your desired icon.
I personally would recommend the first because I think windows chooses an icon which firs best into the startmenu depending on chosen display size and depth

For download Icon I will continue to search

Skype should be the most easy one.The link lies in (well at least on my pc) C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Skype . You can create a link manually pointing to you skype.exe with your icon and replace the file existing there

Also I recommend Backups (especially when working on system-files)

EDIT:
STOOOOPP Waaayyy back. I have found something new.
I found imageres.dll and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartMenu\StartPanel
which contains various subfolders like MyDocs, MyGames and Downloads where a Bitmap key points to imageres.dll which itself contains hundreds of icons YOU are willing to change.
So this is the key and the file you need.
For Changing I recommend the Anolis Resourcer. It maybe still beta but it does what it has to do

[Diamond]

Loebl, on 12 March 2010 - 04:31 PM, said:

ok i am currently fooling arounf with that
in the system32 directory there are maaaaaaaany things to find
gameux.dll contains the icon for the games-menu. Or to be more specific contains that icon in all its variants, 4 Bit to 32 Bit depth and various sizes
and with that info I searched the registry and was able to find "something":
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\GameNewsFiles
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\GameStatisticsFiles
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\GameUpdateFiles
there you will find keys with the name icon path which by default points to gameux.dll and resource number 203 which is the symbol from the startmenu when hovering games. Now you have two possibilities: change the icon in gameux.dll or try what happens if you change the registry to pointig to an .ico file with your desired icon.
I personally would recommend the first because I think windows chooses an icon which firs best into the startmenu depending on chosen display size and depth

For download Icon I will continue to search

Skype should be the most easy one.The link lies in (well at least on my pc) C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Skype . You can create a link manually pointing to you skype.exe with your icon and replace the file existing there

Also I recommend Backups (especially when working on system-files)

EDIT:
STOOOOPP Waaayyy back. I have found something new.
I found imageres.dll and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartMenu\StartPanel
which contains various subfolders like MyDocs, MyGames and Downloads where a Bitmap key points to imageres.dll which itself contains hundreds of icons YOU are willing to change.
So this is the key and the file you need.
For Changing I recommend the Anolis Resourcer. It maybe still beta but it does what it has to do

for skype, it's the same, the change icon button is greyed out :/ so it's not clickable...
for the regedit thing, I'm still working on it...

[Loebl]

Diamond, on 14 March 2010 - 11:44 AM, said:

Loebl, on 12 March 2010 - 04:31 PM, said:

ok i am currently fooling arounf with that
in the system32 directory there are maaaaaaaany things to find
gameux.dll contains the icon for the games-menu. Or to be more specific contains that icon in all its variants, 4 Bit to 32 Bit depth and various sizes
and with that info I searched the registry and was able to find "something":
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\GameNewsFiles
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\GameStatisticsFiles
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\GameUpdateFiles
there you will find keys with the name icon path which by default points to gameux.dll and resource number 203 which is the symbol from the startmenu when hovering games. Now you have two possibilities: change the icon in gameux.dll or try what happens if you change the registry to pointig to an .ico file with your desired icon.
I personally would recommend the first because I think windows chooses an icon which firs best into the startmenu depending on chosen display size and depth

For download Icon I will continue to search

Skype should be the most easy one.The link lies in (well at least on my pc) C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Skype . You can create a link manually pointing to you skype.exe with your icon and replace the file existing there

Also I recommend Backups (especially when working on system-files)

EDIT:
STOOOOPP Waaayyy back. I have found something new.
I found imageres.dll and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartMenu\StartPanel
which contains various subfolders like MyDocs, MyGames and Downloads where a Bitmap key points to imageres.dll which itself contains hundreds of icons YOU are willing to change.
So this is the key and the file you need.
For Changing I recommend the Anolis Resourcer. It maybe still beta but it does what it has to do

for skype, it's the same, the change icon button is greyed out :/ so it's not clickable...
for the regedit thing, I'm still working on it...

naah I mean you first create a Link from your normal Skype executable, which should be editable:

You should be able to load any icon into it.
This link is then copied to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Skype and the old one can be shredded.

sorry, that everything in the menus is in german, but you should get the idea.

[Diamond]

Loebl, on 14 March 2010 - 03:44 PM, said:

Diamond, on 14 March 2010 - 11:44 AM, said:

Loebl, on 12 March 2010 - 04:31 PM, said:

ok i am currently fooling arounf with that
in the system32 directory there are maaaaaaaany things to find
gameux.dll contains the icon for the games-menu. Or to be more specific contains that icon in all its variants, 4 Bit to 32 Bit depth and various sizes
and with that info I searched the registry and was able to find "something":
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\GameNewsFiles
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\GameStatisticsFiles
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\GameUpdateFiles
there you will find keys with the name icon path which by default points to gameux.dll and resource number 203 which is the symbol from the startmenu when hovering games. Now you have two possibilities: change the icon in gameux.dll or try what happens if you change the registry to pointig to an .ico file with your desired icon.
I personally would recommend the first because I think windows chooses an icon which firs best into the startmenu depending on chosen display size and depth

For download Icon I will continue to search

Skype should be the most easy one.The link lies in (well at least on my pc) C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Skype . You can create a link manually pointing to you skype.exe with your icon and replace the file existing there

Also I recommend Backups (especially when working on system-files)

EDIT:
STOOOOPP Waaayyy back. I have found something new.
I found imageres.dll and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartMenu\StartPanel
which contains various subfolders like MyDocs, MyGames and Downloads where a Bitmap key points to imageres.dll which itself contains hundreds of icons YOU are willing to change.
So this is the key and the file you need.
For Changing I recommend the Anolis Resourcer. It maybe still beta but it does what it has to do

for skype, it's the same, the change icon button is greyed out :/ so it's not clickable...
for the regedit thing, I'm still working on it...

naah I mean you first create a Link from your normal Skype executable, which should be editable:

You should be able to load any icon into it.
This link is then copied to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Skype and the old one can be shredded.

sorry, that everything in the menus is in german, but you should get the idea.

now I got you
but I'm german myself, so I don't care if the menus are in german
woher kommst du ? und danke für die hilfe