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The new Windows 11 Settings icons are pretty fantastic— full color and lots of distinctive shapes. Unfortunately, we’ll probably be at Windows 20 before the la
by JonathonW 5y ago
The new Windows 11 Settings icons are pretty fantastic— full color and lots of distinctive shapes.
Unfortunately, we’ll probably be at Windows 20 before the last of the Windows 8-style monochrome icons finally finds its way out of Windows, because that’s how things go at Microsoft. (It’s harder than it used to be, but I’m pretty sure you can still find a few Windows 95-era icons hanging around, and there are definitely still some 2000 icons in there).
- _michaelll 5y agoYou can find much more than just windows 95 icons, check this out https://ntdotdev.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/state-of-the-windows-how-many-layers-of-ui-inconsistencies-are-in-windows-10/ https://ntdotdev.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/state-of-the-windo...
- adamrezich 5y agoexcellent! I've been looking for a thorough examination of this for awhile. I'm glad it specifically showed moricons.dll, which I remember finding as far back as Windows 98 when looking for icons
- JonathonW 5y agomoricons.dll (and a lot of the stuff you'll find in shell32.dll and elsewhere) is a compatibility relic; those icons are no longer used by Windows itself. There are still some lingering old icons in the UI, though. Also, many of the DOS applications with icons in moricons.dll probably still run in 32-bit Windows 10. NTVDM and DOS application support don't exist in 64-bit Windows, but they're still alive and well in 32-bit Windows (albeit an optional install, because MS would really rather people not still be using DOS applications in 2021).