Classic Shell: Forum

Most of the Common System Icons are found in the following 2 .DLL files:

• C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll
• C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll

Here's how to get all of the Icons from your computer into one folder, to help you in customizing Classic Shell & Classic Explorer:

• Download Resources Extract, from Nirsoft here: Resources Extract
• Run the File
• Where it says "Filename/Wildcard" put in any location on your computer, and select any .dll, .exe. .cpl or .ocx file, and click Open
• Delete the Name (but leave the extension, and put a ' * ' instead, like this:
  • instead of C:\Windows\System32\explorer.exe
  • change it to C:\Windows\System32\*.exe
• Select a Destination Folder on your hard Drive, such as E:\Icons\Extracted Icons.. it could easily be over 500 MB, or even a GB or more, depending on whats on your system
• Select "Icons" in the "Resource Types to Extract", and deselect all the rest
• Select "Scan Subfolders"
• in "Subfolders Depth", select "unlimited"
• Select "Automatically Open destination folder"
• in "If filename already exists", select "Overwrite Existing File"
• in "Multiple Files Mode", select "Extract all files into one folder"
• Click Start, and wait for it to finish
• its a good idea to run the scan a few times, and scan different parent directories for at least both EXE & DLL files, (and .CPL & .OCX are useful too) such as:
  • C:\*.exe
  • C:\*.dll
  • C:\*.cpl
  • C:\*.ocx
  • D:\*.exe
  • D:\*.dll
  • D:\*.cpl
  • D:\*.ocx
  • E:\*.exe
  • E:\*.dll
  • E:\*.cpl
  • E:\*.ocx
  • etc
  • always saving to the same folder

**You can run multiple instances of the program, so you can search several locations at the same time and add them all to the same folder

it might take a long time, and theres alot of Icons... so depending on your needs, you may just want to scan folders you know you need something from, such as:

• D:\Program Files\*.exe
  
• D:\Program Files\*.dll
• D:\Program Files\*.cpl
• D:\Program Files\*.ocx
• D:\Program Files (x86)\*.exe
• D:\Program Files (x86)\*.dll
• D:\Program Files (x86)\*.cpl
• D:\Program Files (x86)\*.ocx
• C:\Windows\System32\*.exe
• C:\Windows\System32\*.dll
• C:\Windows\System32\*.cpl
• C:\Windows\System32\*.ocx
• etc

**Click on "Save Config" & save it in the same directory as the program, to keep this search criteria easy to load