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@ Lighthouse - always happy to help:)

@ PalmTrees - I don't use Iconpackager, so I just changed the imageres.dll and replaced it.
Didn't need to go into safemode for that, but did a restart just to be sure everything changed ok.
Now a lot of folder do have the green glass look! Great!

But weird enough not all. I don't understand why.
In Program Files non of the icons changed, but that's ok with me.
In Windows, some of the icons changed, but not all.
Some with contents, some without - so the principle works fine:

Now how do I get all to appear as wanted???
Is there another dll that also handles front and back view of folders?

It has to do with a refresh I guess, because any new folder I make does it allright.
So I deleted the iconcache file and I'll see what happens on the next restart, but for now I've got to run. Been playing around for way too long!
(but it is fun fun fun!)

And PalmTrees: thanks for all this fun!

LOL. would I say that? :)

I can't mark you "Solved" twice :) (well I could. but you know what happens) :)

IcoFx - here is a tutorial to how: http://icofx.ro/tutorials/tutorial5.html
I just copied imageres.dll to my documents, opened IcoFX, clicked resource editor

Opened imageres.dll

Righclicked on the icon I wanted to change:

That results in this:

Click close (there is no save ...):

Because that follows next:

And then it says:

Repeat till you're done:)

(And why did I post a link to a tutorial .... LOL)

Yep, png works:)

Well...this is very depressing...lol not realy;)
i've had IcoFx for a while but i didn't know you could change out the icons like that. I spent hours and hours looking for what i already had...:P
Here is the icon the i'm useing for the folder with subfolders. its .png also

Hi Cleaner007. Do you mean in relation to what we were discussing here?
After a restart you can remove the renamed old imageres.dll without any trouble.

If you mean in general I think it is wise to start a new topic for it, so you'll get more response.
I myself am not very fond of duplicate file removers. The registry often has entries to the same file on different places and if you remove the duplicates you can get pretty weird results.

thanks heaps sarah james for these icon ideas,i too love to tinker with appearance of things,plain to me is boring...

hi sarah james,after reading your post,i couldn`t help myself,i downloaded iconfx & what a brilliant program,i have made icons of my children from image files,they look fantastic,a lot less boring,even did one of my dog,my desktop is family orientated,thank you so much,much appreciated ......