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Can we have icons like these again please. I started from Windows 98 and always loved the icons. They actually represented the application and purpose. These d
by smusamashah 8mo ago
Can we have icons like these again please.
I started from Windows 98 and always loved the icons. They actually represented the application and purpose. These days they are more focused on looking modern. Lots of times they are not even distinguishable between each other.
- rzzzt 8mo agoC:\Windows\System32\moricons.dll is still available, you can set them on shortcuts in Properties with the "Change icon" button.
- M95D 8mo agoMoricons.dll had icons for various DOS programs like word perfect. The icons used in desktop are/were in progman.exe, shell32.dll and control.exe (IIRC, it was a long time ago).
- sillywalk 8mo agoRaymond Chen has more on this: What were the MS-DOS programs that Windows used the progman.exe stock icons for? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250506-00/?p=111149 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250506-00/?p=11... What were the intended uses of those icons in moricons.dll? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250505-00/?p=111143 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250505-00/?p=11...
- rzzzt 8mo agoshell32.dll is unfortunately modernized on modern versions of Windows, with very few exceptions :( the Novell tree is still there.
- owlstuffing 8mo agoIndeed! The UI in general is more intuitive compared with mod flat bs.