Monday, June 6, 2011

Chage any Icon of OS (Xp)

We used different kinds of software (such as themes) to arrange our Operating System for a good look. Sometimes these software’s makes our OS too much slow. Today you can learn how to change the icon by a programming way. First download these software that are necessary elements-


Now let’s start
1. At first copy explorer.exe from C:\Windows\
2. Then copy these files from C:\Windows \system32\

msgina.dll
mydocs.dll
shell32.dll
xpsp2res.dll

(Or download my .dll & .exe files. It is very nice, everyone will ask which version is it? Your GUI will looks like this)



3. Open Microangelo Librarian from Portable Microangelo Toolset. Go to File\Open\ & import your .dll/exe. Give settings like below-




4. Right click on your icon & click on  Replace Icon Images.
(Sometimes there will be an error while Replacing Custom, Don’t worry, follow that steps)

5. Select your icon file that you converted with Any2Icon software.



6. Gradually open your files & edit & save them.

7. Restart computer in Safe mode by pressing F8 key.

8. Open Replacer, Then drag & drop explorer.exe from C:\Windows\ & press Enter. Then drag & drop your edited explorer.exe & press Enter; It will ask Yes/No; PressY. Then press Enter again.

9. Gradually open another 4 files & repeat step 8.

10. Change the theme for once & Restart OS again in normal mode.

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