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C:\Windows\System32\moricons.dll is still available, you can set them on shortcuts in Properties with the "Change icon" button.

• M95D 8mo ago
  Moricons.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 ago
    Raymond 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 ago
    shell32.dll is unfortunately modernized on modern versions of Windows, with very few exceptions :( the Novell tree is still there.