1. Open the Start Menu and type
regedit.exe in the search line, then press enter.
2. If prompted by
UAC, then click on
Yes.
3. In Regedit, go to the location below: (See screenshot below step 4)
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}\DefaultIcon
4. In the left pane of regedit, right click on the
DefaultIcon key and click on
Permissions. (See screenshot below)
5. At the top, select the
Administrators group. At the bottom, check the
Allow box to the right of
Full Control and click on
OK. (See screenshot below)
6. In the left pane of regedit, right click on
(Default) and click on
Modify. (See screenshot below)
8. To Use another Windows 7 Icon -A) Download and install the free program
IconViewer to add the
Icons tab in the screenshot below step .
NOTE: Be sure to download the correct 32-bit or 64-bit version for your Windows 7.
B) In Windows Explorer navigate to the
.exe (ex: for program icons) or
.dll (ex: Windows 7 icons) file that contains the icon that you want to use for the default Library icon, then right click on the file, click on
Properties, and the
Icons tab. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: The most common Windows 7 icons come from the C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll file.C) Make note of the icon number for the icon that you want to use instead.
NOTE: For example, the default Libraries icon number is 1023. I'm going to change it to the 1027 icon number just as an example.
D) In the
Modify window from regedit, type in the full path of the .exe or .dll file followed by
,-library#. (fullpath,-####)
NOTE: For example, if I want to use the path (step 8B) and the 1027 icon (step 8C), I would type:
%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-1027
or
C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll,-1027
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