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How to change folder icons?

Hi guys,
I am trying to change some folder icons but I cannot find the way of doing it. It appears that the resource dll that is holding this information is shellres.dll but this cannot be accessed/copied/edites since is locked by the rom.
Any ideas/solution to this?
Thanks

How to change default folder icon
hi
To change the icon, right click the folder u like to change. move to properties->customize->change icon-> browse to locate the icon file -> click ok apply. Now U can see the change in folder icon from traditional to Ur favorite(Plain_Folder__Empty.ico).
else to change the icon inbuilt in xp
properties->customize->change icon->%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll-> click apply to see changes
For more details - step by step tutorial see
http://techtutr.blogspot.com/2008/10/easy-...lder-icons.html
Regards
techtutr
http://www.techtutr.blogspot.com/

Thanks for the guide... but the OP is referring to the Folder Icons in Programs (and/or Settings) in the Cooked WM ROMs not Windows XP.
Thanks
Dave

Newbies Newbies... lol

How to change folder icons

So, here's a short tutorial on how to create your own dll library and change folder icons.
what you need:
IcoFX get it here : http://icofx.ro/
ResHacker link here : http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/tools/ResHack.zip
and of cource ICONS get some here: http://www.iconarchive.com/
How it works...
Any customized folder has a shortcut inside pointing out the icon it should use
usually it's a icon.lnk file inside the folder.
and icons are usually stored in a DLL library...
So, what we have to do
1. Get some images and transform them into icon files ( .ico )
2. Create our DLL library
3. make the icon.lnk files that point to our specific icon
let's start.
After installing all the above programs and selecting some icons go and launch IcoFX
now go to Tools / Batch Convert
A new window appears
Add your icons / images,
select your icon sizes
select an output folder
hit ok
After it finishes hit ok.
Now go to Tools - Resource Editor
This should pop up
Now add your created icons
After that, hit save
Save your library with a .dll extension like in the above image.
Bam, you just created your own DLL library
Close the program
now to create the icon.lnk file
create a new text document
inside the shortcut looks like this:
1# is a parameter
myiconlib.dll is your icon library
-33 is the resource number where the icon is located within the resource dll
ok, how to find the right number for your icon:
Open up your DLL library with ResourceHacker
hit expand tree to see all the resources in the file
search for your icon
The icon number is very visible ( look at the image )
write the number in your text file like shown in the image. remember to put the "-"
so, another example:
1#MyLibrary.dll, -12
now, goto file , Save AS
Just to be sure select All Files in the Save as type bar
give the file the name: icon.lnk and hit save.
and you are almost done.
Connect via your phone via Activesync
Copy your Dll library right in the Windows folder
Copy your icon.lnk in the folder you want to customize.
And you are done.
Hope this comes in handy
Happy customizing

Nevermind, got it fixed Sorry for the trouble.

Great info! Thanks for sharing.

works great with changing a folder... how do you change just a shortcut?

Thank you very much

i dont nderstand this part , help please
now to create the icon.lnk file
create a new text document
inside the shortcut looks like this:
i have created the library.dll whit al the icons i want . i just dont understand this part above. i have to crate a new text document inside the shortcut? wich shortcut? i am lost in this part

I can't get it working, i did everything, i checked tree times but nothing works.

I GIVEUP
sorry by my inglish , i have being trying to make this shortcut but nothing works, i have being reading al the esteps over and over , but nothing works.i am tired to try to make i simple shortcut, tired to try to change the estar icon, tired to try to change waiting star icon , i just cant do it, nothing seems to work to me, maybe iam so stupid, KEEP THE GOOD JOB ,

be more specific. what failed ? tell me exactly what u did and we\ll see what went wrong

th_undead said:
be more specific. what failed ? tell me exactly what u did and we\ll see what went wrong
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Nothing happens I did step by step everything, but icon does not change Does it works on official htc rom Probably that's the problem

did u copy the dll into the windows folder ?

th_undead said:
did u copy the dll into the windows folder ?
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Yes mate, as i told, did everything

lets see
Please attatch ur dll library qnd ur shortcut and ill take a look at it

Everything seems clear except:
"Copy your icon.lnk in the folder you want to customize."
It's confusing how to customize?

Does anyone still come here?
I followed the tutorial step by step and also I had no success! Could someone help me? Or anyone know which dll is the original folder icon? So I could change them directly in this dll.
I have attached the dll and icon.ink that i created, if someone can help me and verify that is correct.
Thanks

bernabap said:
Does anyone still come here?
I followed the tutorial step by step and also I had no success! Could someone help me? Or anyone know which dll is the original folder icon? So I could change them directly in this dll.
I have attached the dll and icon.ink that i created, if someone can help me and verify that is correct.
Thanks
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hello it looks ok....do you have reset your phone after copy the dll in Windows folder? This is very important because otherwise it dont will show the image....

Yes I did. Did not work. I tried to see in several dll where is the original icon of the folder to change but can not find.

ok you lost me towards the end. in your example you say your icon is -12, but you have -9 highlighted do you not?
also, how can i use this in a kitchen after i create my folders using oemizer?

Great tutorial, thank you very much!
I've created a tutorial about creating shortcuts to Feature Settings and Applications. Plus adding icons to these links. It has many xda-links to specialized shortcut applications!
For me it resulted in icons for MortScript
Your tutorial about creating icons for folders was missing!! Thanx again!
Senax

didn`t worked
thanks for your tutorial.
i tryed it but i had no success
in resco explorer it works in some cases, in others not and in the start menu i had no success.

[TUT] Editing Digital Clocks in Sense

1. Download cfc-gui.exe & (optional) manila editor because its a little easier to find files with: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3164600&postcount=1
2. Copy all xxxxxxxx_manila files from your windows folder (on phone) to a folder on your pc
3. Select the folder you dumped your manila files in as the path in cfc-gui
4. Find all the files that relate to the flip clock, not world clock
(if you're using sense 2.5, I wrote down all the files you need to find)
5. Go to Tools>Export to PNG's in cfc-gui
6. Edit the .png's
7. Replace the manila files with your edited .png's with one of the following methods
-replace them by just finding the corresponding manila files in cfc-gui and hit "replace with", where a window will pop up where you can choose your edited .png
I use the following method(faster)
-dump all of your edited clock .png's in a folder
-go to cfc-gui and select that folder as the path
-go to Tools>Import from PNG's, it will ask you to delete files in the folder, hit yes
-Select the same folder you dumped your .png's in again, cfc-gui will import all your .png's as manila files
8. Download QuickCab: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=400221
9. Run QuickCab.exe and go to Files, find your folder of edited .pngs, and select all of them, I believe each must be selected individually
10. On the right under To Mobile Device, select the Windows folder
11. While all your .png's and Windows folder are both selected, hit Add in the middle
12. Name the .cab, install on phone and reset-enjoy
Manila 2.5 Clock Files
3d076c02_manila
5a67bba9_manila
6d1e4916_manila
7bedfda0_manila
77e0069a_manila
31794a12_manila
49254995_manila
1435ccbf_manila
37332e2e_manila
Hope this was helpful, although there are thousands of digital clocks around here, making your own always works best A few of my clocks are shown in the last few pages of the Post Your Homescreen thread in this forum if you want any of those and I'll be releasing some in a few days as well.

thanks for the tutorial, but screenshot will be nice

janneman22 said:
... screenshot will be nice
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This tutorial is a general answer of this question: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=779603
Screenshots for example you can see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765051
enjoy

My Clock D Glass

seco10 said:
This tutorial is a general answer of this question: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=779603
Screenshots for example you can see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765051
enjoy
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I'd mean, screenshots to clarify the tutorial. Not the final clocks

Why do you want screenshots?
Its as easy as it's written in this tutorial..
If you use CFC Gui fpr 5 minutes, you will see that its not even worth a tutorial (if you asked yourself how to start editing manila-graphics)

thanks
the totarial worked for manila 2.0 well

Hi, I would like change my flip clock as in the attached image fire_clock but with transparency as shown in my home screenshot but since I am inexperienced I was hoping for some help...
I have found already but only for sense 2.1.
Take a look here
By installing it sense cant launch any more...
Btw does ypur mod apply to v2.6 as well?

Mr Black'd said:
Hi, I would like change my flip clock as in the attached image fire_clock but with transparency as shown in my home screenshot but since I am inexperienced I was hoping for some help...
I have found already but only for sense 2.1.
Take a look here
By installing it sense cant launch any more...
Btw does ypur mod apply to v2.6 as well?
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try extracting the contents of the .cab and opening them with cfc-gui (you may have to add the "_manila" extension for them to open), then just export to .png's to a folder and use my tutorial above to replace your sense 2.5 manila files with the .png's from that cab.

Ok I will give it a try but I have downloaded a few apps to extract/view cabs' contents with no success. Maybe a suggestion on this? What R U using?

Mr Black'd said:
Ok I will give it a try but I have downloaded a few apps to extract/view cabs' contents with no success. Maybe a suggestion on this? What R U using?
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I just use 7zip, winrar, etc to extract the contents of the .cabs but I haven't had success with cfc-gui reading them. I haven't tried it, but I think if you rename the files with the _manila extension instead of the .001, .002... extensions it may work.
EDIT:Refer to the app posted by anhphe076 on post #12

kingpin440 said:
I just use 7zip, winrar, etc to extract the contents of the .cabs but I haven't had success with cfc-gui reading them. I haven't tried it, but I think if you rename the files with the _manila extension instead of the .001, .002... extensions it may work.
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No! .001.002.....not work.
Try use app:
1. Drop move *.cab file to Cab2OEM.EXE
2. Drop move *.cab file to EXT_PAckages_rebuilder.exe
extract. ok.

anhphe076 said:
No! .001.002.....not work.
Try use app:
1. Drop move *.cab file to Cab2OEM.EXE
2. Drop move *.cab file to EXT_PAckages_rebuilder.exe
extract. ok.
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yes, thanks...I knew I used this app at some point, I believe it worked well.

Sense 2.5/2.6 Fire Flip Clock
It seems that I have managed to fix it eventually.
All thanks to this great tutorial...
So I am sharing the result of my work...
You can download following the link below
Sense_2.5_Fire_Flip_Clock.cab
If anyone needs the walpapers that I used for CHT Editor
FireScull Wallpapers.rar
Screenshots are attached.
Thank you for the assistane and enjoy...

Mr Black'd said:
It seems that I have managed to fix it eventually.
All thanks to this great tutorial...
So I am sharing the result of my work...
You can download following the link below
Sense_2.5_Fire_Flip_Clock.cab
If anyone needs the walpapers that I used for CHT Editor
FireScull Wallpapers.rar
Screenshots are attached.
Thank you for the assistane and enjoy...
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Nice, glad you got it to work

i was always been working on my own digital clock, but i still have one problem.
Does anybody know how to remove die 1pixel bar through the middel of the digits?
thx

RaZ0R07 said:
i was always been working on my own digital clock, but i still have one problem.
Does anybody know how to remove die 1pixel bar through the middel of the digits?
thx
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it's not a bar, its just the point where the clock numbers are separated slightly, may be possible with registry edits but not sure myself

No Need Really To Make .CAB Files Of Your Edits ... CFC GUI Will Stop Manila On The Device, Transfer Your Edits To Your Device, And Then Restart Manila Automatically.

kingpin440 said:
1. Download cfc-gui.exe & (optional) manila editor because its a little easier to find files with: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3164600&postcount=1
2. Copy all xxxxxxxx_manila files from your windows folder (on phone) to a folder on your pc
3. Select the folder you dumped your manila files in as the path in cfc-gui
4. Find all the files that relate to the flip clock, not world clock
(if you're using sense 2.5, I wrote down all the files you need to find)
5. Go to Tools>Export to PNG's in cfc-gui
6. Edit the .png's
7. Replace the manila files with your edited .png's with one of the following methods
-replace them by just finding the corresponding manila files in cfc-gui and hit "replace with", where a window will pop up where you can choose your edited .png
I use the following method(faster)
-dump all of your edited clock .png's in a folder
-go to cfc-gui and select that folder as the path
-go to Tools>Import from PNG's, it will ask you to delete files in the folder, hit yes
-Select the same folder you dumped your .png's in again, cfc-gui will import all your .png's as manila files
8. Download QuickCab: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=400221
9. Run QuickCab.exe and go to Files, find your folder of edited .pngs, and select all of them, I believe each must be selected individually
10. On the right under To Mobile Device, select the Windows folder
11. While all your .png's and Windows folder are both selected, hit Add in the middle
12. Name the .cab, install on phone and reset-enjoy
Manila 2.5 Clock Files
3d076c02_manila
5a67bba9_manila
6d1e4916_manila
7bedfda0_manila
77e0069a_manila
31794a12_manila
49254995_manila
1435ccbf_manila
37332e2e_manila
Hope this was helpful, although there are thousands of digital clocks around here, making your own always works best A few of my clocks are shown in the last few pages of the Post Your Homescreen thread in this forum if you want any of those and I'll be releasing some in a few days as well.
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i use cfc program can you give all manila files what is for change e mail,etc... like you give for clock
thanks

gagi75 said:
i use cfc program can you give all manila files what is for change e mail,etc... like you give for clock
thanks
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If You Follow Step 2 :
"Copy all xxxxxxxx_manila files from your windows folder (on phone) to a folder on your pc"
Open CFC GUI > File > Select Folder (Select The Folder In Which You Copied The xxxxxxxx_manila Files To)
CFC GUI Automatically Breaks Down What Files Do What In The LEFT Of The Interface.

[Q] How to change icon in app drawer

I have Go launcher ex and some icon packs,
how to i manually say that i want a specific application (in app drawer) to use a specific icon in the icon pack?

long press the app icon on the dock and you ll get more option like to change the shorcut or change its icon

That's for the dock icons. I want to change the icons in the drawer
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA Premium App

i use to download themes when i used go launcher. try some themes

yup,but i don't get to choose the specific icons i want, i don't get the icons i really one from just one theme

you would need to use apk manager for that, just decomplie a application, replace the icon with the one of your choice, recompile, install and walla! its time consuming though.

that is more tiring if you get tired of the icons abd want to change em again..
why dont you try editing the theme itself ?

fatexo said:
that is more tiring if you get tired of the icons abd want to change em again..
why dont you try editing the theme itself ?
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how can i do that? i'm using go launcher ex

backup the theme apk on sdcard then transfer it to ur PC.
rename the .apk extension to .zip extract it
delete the 'META-INF' folder and navigate to res/drawable
here you will find all the icons,docks and many things.
mess with them as you want then come back to where you deleted the META folder and create a new zip file.
drag and drop all folders and files as it is in the new zip file.
rename the .zip extention to .apk.
sign it on PC using the auto sign tool and then install on ur phone
you can even change the look of widgets and things using this method.
hope i helped instead of confusing you..

Folder Organizer should be able to do it for you.

thanks i'll give the folder organizer first. looks like easier to try first

Miui v4 Icon Format

Hi, I am trying to make changes to an icon theme but keep getting "Wrong theme format" error in the Miui v4 theme manager.
I used the same process I did back on GB that worked... renamed the .mtz to .zip, extracted it, renamed icons to icons.zip, extracted it. Then I edited .png's in the icons folder, zipped all the .png's into a file called icons.zip and removed the .zip by renaming icons.zip to just icons. Then I zipped the files: description.xml, icons, and preview folder. I renamed this .zip to a .mtz, pushed it to my phone and tried to apply the theme but got the error. I've searched but haven't found any solutions.
Has the icon theme format changed for v4? Thanks for any help.

Just take a MIUI icons set (like Cain HD for ex)
- open the .mtz using 7zip (no need to rename or change extension)
- double click on "icon", drag and drop ur icons.
- then close everything, it will ask u if u want to update/refresh the file. say YES and that's it

Raulinho7 said:
Just take a MIUI icons set (like Cain HD for ex)
- open the .mtz using 7zip (no need to rename or change extension)
- double click on "icon", drag and drop ur icons.
- then close everything, it will ask u if u want to update/refresh the file. say YES and that's it
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I would've tried this method but unfortunately I have a Mac and haven't been able to find a good 7zip equivalent :/ Any idea why it worked when I decompressed/compressed mtz's on GB but not ICS? The format all seems the same.

iamchrisc said:
I would've tried this method but unfortunately I have a Mac and haven't been able to find a good 7zip equivalent :/ Any idea why it worked when I decompressed/compressed mtz's on GB but not ICS? The format all seems the same.
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My guess is that somehow you didn't package it correctly. Double check to see if that's the issue.

i did it this way
if i have an iconpack in wrong size, i first resize the icons
then i mark all icons and add them to an archive with 7zip
now i take the icons.zip and the description.xml add it to a new zip
inside the zipfile, i rename the icons.zip into icons and you are ready^^

Have you tried using the 'store' option - I.e. no compression?
Changing the extension while inside the theme zip will also help to avoid certain issues.

Well I was able to get it working by using StuffIt Archive Manager to replace icons without uncompressing/compressing the mtz. Still strange it doesn't work when I uncompress it. I'm positive I package it back in the same way, I've triple checked. Guess I'll just have to use the StuffIt Delux trial for now.