How To Change Windows 7 Library Icons the Easy Way

Have you grown old of the plain & boring library icons in Windows 7? You are on the right path because today our brief tutorial is subjected around this topic. So, get excited and get to work some simple steps as follows :

First method, The Windows 7 library icons can be changed with a hack to a text file, but there’s an easier way. We’ll explain both.

Not sure what we’re talking about? Open up Windows Explorer, and check out the Libraries.

Windows 7 Default Library Icons

For today’s lesson, we’ll teach you how to change those icons with something else. (It’ll also work for your own custom Libraries).

                                                   
                                           Changing Library Icons The Easy Way

Another note is that if you want to change out the DLL, you’ll need to select it, and then hit the Enter key.

Once you’ve swapped out your icon, it usually shows up right away, or you can Refresh with F5 (though logging off or restarting explorer.exe might be required).

Change Libraries the Manual Way

Don’t feel like messing with a piece of software from some person somewhere? You can make these changes manually with nothing more than Notepad. Just paste the following into the start menu search box, or Explorer location bar:

Then drag one of the icons from Explorer over to a Notepad window to open up the file.

Inside the file, you’ll see an iconReference line, or if you don’t see it, you’ll want to add one like so:

The data in the middle is the path, either to the icon (.ico) file, or if you are referencing a DLL file, you’ll need to add the comma and number position of the icon in the file.

And thats how we’ve learned how to swap out the icons.

And more simpler, if you dont want to get your hands dirty on all these stuffs, then download an awesome freeware, 7conifier about which we will be posting in our next post.

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