Bad advice: Doesn't know what he's talking about
Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3588 messages posted)
was: What folder for "Small icons" Folder Win98SE?
colonel1 wrote:
|Icons in windows are kept in shell32.dll
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Not **ALL** of them; read the WHOLE thread.
|in system
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Immaterial.
As stated in the thread, the problem is likely the icon *cache*.
|or system32.
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It should be noted that \SYSTEM32 is an NT construct.
Apps written by Win9x-aware developers DON'T use that directory.
*Microsoft* certainly doesn't use it under 9x.
(It's not created by a Windoze 9x install.)
It should also be noted that an original icon can be located ANYWHERE
(and that the icon for most file extensions can easily be reassigned).
You are talking about ORIGINAL icons (from which ShellIconCache is built).
The problem is almost always simpler that what you have specified.
...and since **ALL** the original icons are NOT in the file you named,
it is likely that *some* icons would be OK if the *cache* wasn't thoroughly borked.
|The only way to restore it
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If you had read ALL the posts to the thread, you would know there are OTHERS.
Yours is not the *only* way;
indeed yours is likely NOT a viable way at all.
Even if he did what you specified, he would STILL have to rebuild the *cache*.
|would be to download a new copy of shell32.dll
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Most likely WRONG and unnecessary.
|and copy it over in DOS Mode.
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Your solution is probably unnecessary.
It shows a lack of understanding about how Windoze works.
Your post is a bunch of over-the-top guesswork about Windoze.
(Occam's Razor: When you hear hoofbeats, think "horses"--not "zebras".)
The CORRECT answer to the question was more likely posted in the thread,
months ago.
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