Fun with win xp personality icons

  
Although xp is about to enter the age of aging, its value is something we can't ignore. Its personality operation is also highly praised by users. It makes the user so habitual, and brings it to the user when it leaves. Come and have a surprise, let the user personalize the icon of the system, let's experience it together.

Raiders ·change shortcut icons
right click on the shortcut icon ——>“property”——>“change icon”, then underneath The current icon & rdquo; column will list some icons that come with the program. If you want to change to other icons, you can click “Browse” to find the location of the icon you want to replace, and “OK”.
Raiders II · Change File Type Icons
All kinds of format files in the general system have fixed icons, you can replace them with your favorite icons.
Open “My Computer”, select “Tools”——>“Folder Options”——>“File Type> in the menu above Will list all registered file types, select a type, click on the following "Advanced" (depending on the version of WINDOWS, under some systems, please select "Edit", then click “ change icon ” Change it.

Raiders · Change Folder Icons
If a directory is important or special to you, consider changing this folder to a different icon.
If you are using Windows XP, it's very simple, right click on the folder and select <;properties”——>“custom”——>“change The icon & rdquo; can do it.

In other systems, the usual way is to create a Desktop.ini with Notepad in the directory you want to replace, and write the following lines:
[.ShellClassInfo]
InfoTip=
IconFile=
IconIndex=
InfoTip can write folder prompt information; IconFile is your icon file, generally use .ico grid file, you can also use .exe, .dll and other icon files. Act as, write absolute or relative path can be; IconIndex is to choose which icon, if you specify exe or dll contains more than one icon, then you need to choose, if you want to use the first target, IconIndex=0 Without the definition of the line, the system defaults to using the fourth icon, IconIndex=3, which is why the icon cannot be displayed for many times, because such a file usually has only one icon.
Raiders four · change system fixed icons
The so-called system fixed icons are icons like "My Computer", "My Network Places". If you change such icons, it is a bit cumbersome to use the relevant software and you need to modify the registry.
Open the “Start” menu and enter “regedit” in the "Run” item to open the Registry Editor. Set the special folder entries for these systems under the "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" key under the "CLSID" key, the main keys for some common items are:
My Computer{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
Recycle Bin {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
Network Neighborhood{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
Double-click the key name of the item you want to modify, and there is a "DefaultIcon" in the bottom. The primary key, click this primary key, there is a "default" item on the right, double-click it and then specify the icon path, such as "%SystemRoot%\\Explorer.exe,0”, 0 refers to the first of Explorer.exe Icons; there will be three columns under the recycle bin, "Default", "Empty" and "Full", where "Empty" is the icon in the empty state, and "Full" is the status when there are no deleted items. Other system fixed icons can also be modified with the corresponding primary keys.
xp system can always bring different surprises to users. The four strategies mentioned above are to teach you how to replace various icons in the system. Users who like personality can like to set their favorite pictures as you. Oh, don't miss the system icon.
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