BleepingComputer.com: Where Are The Shutdown Icons Located In A Normal Installation Of Windows Xp?

I am trying to find the location(s) of the `Turn Off', `Restart', `Stand By', and `Hibernate' icons (as shown on the `Turn Off Computer' dialog), the `Switch User' and `Log Off' icons (as shown on the `Log Off' dialog), and the `Turn Off Computer' and `Log Off' icons (as shown on the Start menu).

I've already checked the shell32.dll file and have performed a thorough search of all files and folders on my computer for files with the `.ico' extension (including hidden files and folders) - all without success.

Anybody have a clue?

Thanks

Damaru

This post has been edited by Damaru: 25 January 2008 - 04:50 AM

I think that you mean...you want to find the parents of those icons.

An icon is nothing but a shortcut for any executable.

http://ask-leo.com/i_have_multiple_winlogo...at_do_i_do.html

Louis

They're located in one of the system DLL's in the System32 folder (Can't recall which one offhand). I though it was shell32.dll, but could be mistaken. Try a free icon viewer to see them: http://www.cosmin.com/iconviewer/

Hi Louis,

I don't really know what the word `parent' means in this context, but what I'm looking for are the .ico files which correspond to the icons that appear on the above-mentioned menus and dialogs. If the word `parent' refers to these files, then yes, that's what I'm looking for.

John,

Regarding your Icon Viewer recommendation: I haven't tried the 3rd party software approach yet, but I may get around to it. It occurs to me, though, that if a particular program can only show me the contents of .dll's that I specify, then that program may not have much added utility for me, as I would need to know which .dll's to tell it to look in first, and that is exactly the information I am missing... I think my problem has more to do with knowing which .dll's I need to access than it does with accessing the contents of .dll's in general.

Muchos gracias for your responses

Damaru

This post has been edited by Damaru: 25 January 2008 - 08:05 AM

I am trying to find the location(s) of the `Turn Off', `Restart', `Stand By', and `Hibernate' icons (as shown on the `Turn Off Computer' dialog), the `Switch User' and `Log Off' icons (as shown on the `Log Off' dialog), and the `Turn Off Computer' and `Log Off' icons (as shown on the Start menu).

Silly question but why???

Just for clarification: I was using "parent" to denote the actual command or executable, while using "icon" to connote "shortcut".

I have tons of icons on my desktop, but they all point to a file somewhere else. That file is normally an executable on my systems.

Remember...I suffer from AllTimers Disease , so I may not be thinking straight.

Louis

hamluis, on Jan 25 2008, 01:15 PM, said:

wipe and have done with it

The utility of a 3rd party icon viewer is that you won't have to spend a bunch of time hunting for files to look in. The ability to look at the icons in a file is built into Windows XP but may be difficult to locate.

A quick look into the icons available in my copy of shell32.dll on my XP VM (with a beta of SP3 installed) shows that most of those icons are indeed located in the shell32.dll file.

hamluis, on Jan 25 2008, 01:15 PM, said:

System restore is always worth a try

Damaru, on Jan 24 2008, 12:47 PM, said:

Those are not icons, they are a bitmap resource in MSGINA.DLL (specifically #20150).

It’s simple enough to crop the bitmaps and create actual icon files from it, but it also means you’ll have to manually create a proper alpha-mask and scale it to different sizes. For the alpha-mask, I recommend just copying it from one of the square-button icons in SHELL32.DLL (that way you get proper shading and fading effects). As for scaling, I guess you can just try various scaling algorithms from a few graphics apps (for example, try the ones built into MSPaint and Microangelo, but also try the best ones in IrfanView or Photoshop or whatever).

Oh, and the “icons” in the log-off dialog for switch user and log off are also bitmap resources (#14356), but in SHELL32.DLL.

This post has been edited by Synetech: 29 September 2010 - 09:58 PM

Good info, old post. Using this info you could use a resource editor to replace the bitmaps in windows, by changing the bitmaps resource table in the system file, you'd need to keep system file protection from reverting that file once it's changed, etc...

Jan 26, 2008? I'm posting in a dead thread. xD

Gabrial, on Sep 29 2010, 04:51 PM, said:

I really hate it when people talk like that. Have you guys never heard of search engines? It’s not old to someone who just Googled it today and landed here. If nobody bothered to answer the question just because it was asked a couple of years ago, then yet another person would end up at a dead end.

Gabrial, on Sep 29 2010, 04:51 PM, said:

Except that it wans’t dead since the OP never got an answer (and in fact it looks like the thread was jacked).