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windows 10 get windows 7 looking recycle bin and PC icon?
- Thread starter leo5111
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Have you looked into classic shell Basically gives Win10 a Win7 look and feel
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The icons you want are in C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll and there is no way I know of to pull those out. Now you can use custom made icons.
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In win 7 with Yamicsoft win 7 mgr, I can and did change those icons, plus hd ones and some others. There is a win 10 mgr version so it should work. I have a huge folder of nothing but icons. May as well put them to use.
Classic shell is no longer being developed as of 12/17 (time to move on me thinks too). Plus it can really only customize just the start menu itself which is really just a few custom icons for shortcuts. Win7 and I think 10 Mgr will customize just about any system icon. I'm using a cool little yoda figure for 'my computer' on my desktop as example. Plus I give custom icons for all my different devices and drives. I like to also give my portable software folders the icon of the soft itself just for the hell of it sometimes. This one is actually an ico file I converted to png as the forum can't handle the ico one.
Classic shell is no longer being developed as of 12/17 (time to move on me thinks too). Plus it can really only customize just the start menu itself which is really just a few custom icons for shortcuts. Win7 and I think 10 Mgr will customize just about any system icon. I'm using a cool little yoda figure for 'my computer' on my desktop as example. Plus I give custom icons for all my different devices and drives. I like to also give my portable software folders the icon of the soft itself just for the hell of it sometimes. This one is actually an ico file I converted to png as the forum can't handle the ico one.
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I just found a free prog for changing icons called CustomizerGod. It's a single exe file (1.4mb) and can be run from anywhere without having to even create a folder for it.
http://www.door2windows.com/customizergod/
Since classicshell is no longer maintained I switched to startmenux (which is actually better anyways imo)
https://www.startmenux.com/index.html
but when I 'replace' the start orb, it has a tendency to fade out and the start menu itself becomes inaccessible at times. It could possible be from classic shell's leftover settings-who knows. Anyways, with CGod, I changed it to the yoda guy above using a 128x128 png file. It completely disappears when I am not on it. Appears when I hover without being size restricted by the taskbar, and now the 'start menu x' does not break. I noticed that the customizer god does not see the changes I made with win7mgr. NBD. I just wanted to kick classic shell to the curb as it is no longer maintained at all.
http://www.door2windows.com/customizergod/
Since classicshell is no longer maintained I switched to startmenux (which is actually better anyways imo)
https://www.startmenux.com/index.html
but when I 'replace' the start orb, it has a tendency to fade out and the start menu itself becomes inaccessible at times. It could possible be from classic shell's leftover settings-who knows. Anyways, with CGod, I changed it to the yoda guy above using a 128x128 png file. It completely disappears when I am not on it. Appears when I hover without being size restricted by the taskbar, and now the 'start menu x' does not break. I noticed that the customizer god does not see the changes I made with win7mgr. NBD. I just wanted to kick classic shell to the curb as it is no longer maintained at all.
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