Changing Open folder icon

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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.
 
cpemma said:
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.
Click to expand...

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/
 
cpemma said:
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).
Click to expand...
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?
 
| > 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
 
It works for me but it has to be exactly right. What exactly have you done. Is your path to the icon correct. If the treeview is showing (ie explorer view) then the open folder icon is green in the treeview. If you are in folder view (no tree view) then the custom open folder icon appears in the titlebar.

It always been fickle.
 
David said:
It works for me but it has to be exactly right. What exactly have you
done.
Click to expand...

[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?
 
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 said:
David said:
It works for me but it has to be exactly right. What exactly have you
done.
Click to expand...

[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?
Click to expand...
 
| 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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