Computer Icon

**Bman** · January 4th, 2003

How do i change this icon, the computer icon when you go here....

I know iv seen it done!

**Bman** · January 4th, 2003

Plus how do i change the folder icons for the folders windows makes, like My Music, ect??

**Nick M** · January 4th, 2003

I'v seen that icon changed also. I would like to know how to do it aswell.

**Bman** · January 4th, 2003

nobody...hmmm i want to do this so bad!!

**yoyo** · January 5th, 2003

You can modify it using Resource Hacker. Then usual procedure when replacing system files. The picture is in C:\Windows\System32\sysdm.cpl.

**yoyo** · January 5th, 2003

To the second question, how to change the icons of the MyPictures, MyMusic,... folders. The easiest way,if you don't want to use iconchanging programs, is to edit the desktop.ini files, hidden files inside the folders. You can open them in notepad, then change the lines that start with IconFile= and IconIndex= or if they are not there add them.
Example:
change
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\System32\mydocs.dll
IconIndex=-101
to
IconFile=C:\Your\Path\youricon.ico
IconIndex=-0

This will change the icon in Explorer, not in Start menu.

**Beginning** · January 6th, 2003

Is this what you are talkin' about?

**Bman** · January 6th, 2003

yea thats it but no bottom picture!

**yoyo** · January 6th, 2003

The bottom picture is a modified oemlogo.bmp. The one above is, as I said above, a resource hacker job.

**Geffy** · January 6th, 2003

The changing of MyMusic Folders and the like is done with Apps like MicroAngelo and things like that. You can also change some of the Folder Icons using something in the folder properties, I cant remember exactly what it is as I int at my XP machine at the mo.

**Grandmaster** · January 6th, 2003

Originally posted by yoyo
To the second question, how to change the icons of the MyPictures, MyMusic,... folders. The easiest way,if you don't want to use iconchanging programs, is to edit the desktop.ini files, hidden files inside the folders. You can open them in notepad, then change the lines that start with IconFile= and IconIndex= or if they are not there add them.
Example:
change
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\System32\mydocs.dll
IconIndex=-101
to
IconFile=C:\Your\Path\youricon.ico
IconIndex=-0

This will change the icon in Explorer, not in Start menu.

That's cool, I never you you could change them that way...great tip!

**Beginning** · January 7th, 2003

Yeah..... the bottom picture I added myself... The top one you can change with ' Resourse Hacker ' .... But for some reason I could make the top one stick before but now that I have Sp1 installed I can't anymore.... Crazy windows file protection I imagine.. :huh: :huh:

**yoyo** · January 7th, 2003

Beginning, the backup copy of sysdm.cpl used by System File Protection is no longer in dllcache but in Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386, if you have applied SP1 in any other way than slipstreamed.

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Grandmaster Electronica Addict Joined: February 2002 Location: Santa Clara, CA Posts: 10,574 Reputation: 2960 Power: 257	Originally posted by yoyo To the second question, how to change the icons of the MyPictures, MyMusic,... folders. The easiest way,if you don't want to use iconchanging programs, is to edit the desktop.ini files, hidden files inside the folders. You can open them in notepad, then change the lines that start with IconFile= and IconIndex= or if they are not there add them. Example: change IconFile=%SystemRoot%\System32\mydocs.dll IconIndex=-101 to IconFile=C:\Your\Path\youricon.ico IconIndex=-0 This will change the icon in Explorer, not in Start menu. That's cool, I never you you could change them that way...great tip!

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Beginning I'm Beginning Somehow... Joined: June 2002 Location: XP-erience, NTFS, OSNN, here..... Posts: 1,262 Reputation: 360 Power: 133	Yeah..... the bottom picture I added myself... The top one you can change with ' Resourse Hacker ' .... But for some reason I could make the top one stick before but now that I have Sp1 installed I can't anymore.... Crazy windows file protection I imagine.. :huh: :huh: - - - - - - - - -Devart Gallery - - - - - - - - - -

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January 4th, 2003	Top \| #2
Bman OSNN Designer Joined: July 2002 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 8,700 Blog Entries: 106 Reputation: 1386 Power: 218	Plus how do i change the folder icons for the folders windows makes, like My Music, ect??

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Nick M OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: July 2002 Posts: 3,961 Reputation: 370 Power: 159	I'v seen that icon changed also. I would like to know how to do it aswell.

January 4th, 2003	Top \| #4
Bman OSNN Designer Joined: July 2002 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 8,700 Blog Entries: 106 Reputation: 1386 Power: 218	nobody...hmmm i want to do this so bad!!

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yoyo _________________ Joined: July 2002 Posts: 1,557 Reputation: 160 Power: 133	You can modify it using Resource Hacker. Then usual procedure when replacing system files. The picture is in C:\Windows\System32\sysdm.cpl.

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yoyo _________________ Joined: July 2002 Posts: 1,557 Reputation: 160 Power: 133	To the second question, how to change the icons of the MyPictures, MyMusic,... folders. The easiest way,if you don't want to use iconchanging programs, is to edit the desktop.ini files, hidden files inside the folders. You can open them in notepad, then change the lines that start with IconFile= and IconIndex= or if they are not there add them. Example: change IconFile=%SystemRoot%\System32\mydocs.dll IconIndex=-101 to IconFile=C:\Your\Path\youricon.ico IconIndex=-0 This will change the icon in Explorer, not in Start menu.

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Bman OSNN Designer Joined: July 2002 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 8,700 Blog Entries: 106 Reputation: 1386 Power: 218	yea thats it but no bottom picture!

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yoyo _________________ Joined: July 2002 Posts: 1,557 Reputation: 160 Power: 133	The bottom picture is a modified oemlogo.bmp. The one above is, as I said above, a resource hacker job.

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yoyo _________________ Joined: July 2002 Posts: 1,557 Reputation: 160 Power: 133	Beginning, the backup copy of sysdm.cpl used by System File Protection is no longer in dllcache but in Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386, if you have applied SP1 in any other way than slipstreamed.

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