I was wondering if anyone had any success in replacing system icons under LS when using XP. Ive used packager, and icon phile, and cursors work fine but the icons only show up when explorer is the active shell. any help?
you have to reshack the shell32.dll and replace it in order to register changes.
It's a known bug in explorer (according to MrJukes) which affects all shells other than explorer. We can't do anything about it without knowing explorer's sourcecode, and if there's a workaround we haven't found it yet. :( If you know an alternative shell without that bug please let us know.
well i think if the icon changing programs referenced the shell32 instead of the shell itself it might work a little better. that way it wouldn't matter what shell you were using.
I got it! Let's email Bill and ask him for the explorer source code. Cause me and Bill are homies, I cut his hair.
Modules do everything else, why not change icons? Hey, it could happen, right?
This drives me crazy. It was one of the things that made me switch away from Litestep back a few years ago (when I switched to Win2k) I really wish there was a fix for this.
how exactly do you modify shell32.dll? isn't it being used all the time?
2frugus:
install second copy of Windows (or another version) :)
>isn't it being used all the time?
yes
>how exactly do you modify shell32.dll?
I do it rebooting on dos from a floppy (if your filesystem is not ntfs)