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Have you anytime capital to bandy out the Windows absence icons with article else? The fresh Windows 7 library icons can be afflicted with a drudge to a argument file, but there’s an easier way. We’ll explain both.

Not abiding what we’re talking about? Open up Windows Explorer, and analysis out the Libraries.

For today’s lesson, we’ll advise you how to change those icons with article else. (It’ll additionally assignment for your own custom Libraries).

Change Library Icons the Accessible Way

To change the icons out the accessible way, we’ll use a tiny apparatus alleged Library Figure Changer from a user over at deviantART. Thanks to Pratik for pointing us appear this tool!

Once you’ve opened up the tool, you’ll be presented with account of icons and libraries… aloof bang on the Library on the right-hand side, and again accept the figure on the left, and bang “Select Figure from dll”. You can additionally use the Select fresh Figure from book instead, if you don’t appetite to use a absence Windows icon.

Note that if you appetite to restore the figure to default, you accept to bang on the Library aboriginal on the right-hand side, and again bang the Restore absence figure button.

Another agenda is that if you appetite to change out the DLL, you’ll charge to baddest it, and again hit the Enter key. 

Download Replace Librarie Icons from deviantART [mirror copy]

Change Libraries the Manual Way

Don’t feel like messing with a allotment ofcomputer application from some being somewhere? You can accomplish these changes manually with annihilation added than Notepad. Just adhesive the afterward into the alpha card chase box, or Explorer area bar:

%appdata%\microsoft\windows\libraries

Then annoyance one of the icons from Explorer over to a Notepad window to accessible up the file.

Inside the file, you’ll see an iconReference line, or if you don’t see it, you’ll appetite to add one like so:

C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,301

The abstracts in the average is the path, either to the figure (.ico) file, or if you are referencing a DLL file, you’ll charge to add the breach and cardinal position of the figure in the file. 

The absence activity for the Power button on the alpha card in Windows 7 is shutdown, and in Vista is Sleep, which isn’t necessarily advantageous for everybody, so we’ll explain how to change it here.

Change Windows 7 Abeyance Button

Windows 7 makes it absolutely accessible – aloof arch into the Alpha Card / Taskbar preferences by right-clicking on the alpha card and allotment Properties.

All you charge to do is change the drop-down for Ability Button Action to whatever you would prefer.

Change Windows Vista Ability Buttons

You can configure this ambience calmly by application the avant-garde ability settings panel, which is a little catchy to get to normally, but we’ll booty the shortcut.

Open a command alert (type cmd into the alpha card chase bar), and again blazon in the following:

powercfg.cpl,1

You could additionally booty the continued avenue (Control Console \ Ability Options \ Change Plan Settings \ Change Avant-garde Ability Settings)

Once you get to this dialog, browse bottomward as apparent to “Power buttons and lid”

From here, you can change the options:

* Ability button activity – Changes the accouterments ability button action

* Start card ability button – Changes the ability button on the Start Menu

You can change the ability button to either Sleep, Hibernate or Shut Down, or alike annihilation for the accouterments ability button.