Change default icons vista

If I place shell One more thing Even though I replaced system Take a look:. This is what screwed up my icons. I mean you would have to switch to imageres. You can at most change one icon at time. Please Please Please, someone upload shell Of course your seeing the "wrong" icons in shell The 3D Vista Aero icons are actually in imageres.

The reason why you can put shell Try putting shell The icons your seeing in shell Why don't you just re-install. If you installed style xp then your screwed anyway and no amount of files anyone can send you will fix it as your registry pointers are screwed too. I'm sure distributing those files would be a breach of copyright as there is no way to verify whether you legitimately own Vista. I don't think that replacing the files will solve the problem, because there's nothing wrong with them.

Try registering the shell Thought I'd start posting an actual fix for icon issues in vista.. I've fubar'd my icons a bit trying to deal with themes and all and even especially with the XPTheme thingie TG -soft -ish?

After searching all over the internet to find a solution for all my icons being broken, this was the only one to work, so thank you! Search In. Windows Vista Default Icons. Subscribe to our RSS Feed! Follow Us On Facebook. Subscribe To Redmond Pie. Popular Stories. Redmond Pie's Latest. All Rights Reserved. But as good as they are, what if you want to change them? How do you do it? Windows Vista maintains the ability to change the icons of individual short-cuts and folders though in very inconsistent ways.

The best, easiest, and to my knowledge only way to change Windows Vista icons all at once is with Stardock IconPackager. With it, users can change individual icons or change all their icons at once by applying a "package" of icons to their Windows Vista system. IconPackager even supports the new "live" folder previews. IconPackager adds a context menu called "change icon" for most types of files that looks like this:. Changing individual icons with IconPackager installed.

Once IconPackager is installed, this functionality is natively added to Windows Vista. It's totally seamless. Any icon that doesn't have a x image gets a smaller version that doesn't look as good as it could.

One issue on Windows Vista is how icons are displayed. Most icons are 32x32 pixels in size. Some programs have a higher resolution 48x48 version.