Win7 beautification: do-it-yourself, make the right button of the Personality menu icon

Some time ago, Win7 home provided the "Win7 beautification strategy: Replace the Imageres.dll, the icon all changed" a article. Today again to give you "Win7 beautification: do-it-yourself, make the right key menu icon"; The main right-click menu for example, detailed explanation system icon individual beautification process, of course, you can refer to this article extrapolate. Here, especially thanks to the soft Media Forum landscaping talent Q8267609 share.

Right-click menu three system default icon, that is, screen resolution + gadget + personalized three icons. These three icons landscaping work is very easy to be ignored by everyone!

Look at the Picture: (Example for landscaping effect)

Before landscaping, first to figure out the exact location of these three icons, registry probes can be known,

These three icons are located under: Hcr_desktopbackground_shell.

respectively:

Display screen resolution icon position%systemroot%system32display.dll

Gadgets gadget icon position C:Program fileswindows Sidebarsidebar.exe

Personalize Personalized icon Location%systemroot%system32themecpl.dll

With a clear goal, the rest is good.

There are two ways to replace it, one is to reassign the icon path in the registry and assign it to the icon you want,

This method requires permission to search for the right to do so.

This article is mainly about the way to replace the system icon, this method is also a permanent solution.

Sacrifice Artifact Restorator (Resource Editor tool), open the above three files respectively,

Navigate to Icon-1, right-click Export icon to any selected folder, save.

Restorator Work screenshot:

The next task is to analyze the original icon, use the tool iconworkshop,

IconWorkshop Working Interface screenshot:

After analysis, the structure of three icons is as follows:

Take the display screen resolution for example (the rest of the same):

Original icon structure:

RGB/A 256 Color 16 colors

256X256 128X128 128X128

128X128 48X48 48X48

48X48 32X32 32X32

32X32 24X24 24X24

24X24 16X16 16X16

16X16

Then, the structure of the icon you are going to replace will have to meet the above requirements, otherwise it is easy to make an unknown error after the replacement.

Remember that! This is also a matter of note to replace all system icons.

Open IconWorkshop, Import the icon you have prepared, check rgb/a 256 color 16 colors, first look at the extra items than the original icon,

The extra item processing is simple, right mouse button on the image directly-remove the image.

Missing items look at the following figure: (the example is a ready-made icon, or you can import an image creation icon, in principle, the background transparent PNG format is the best)

Modify principle the rgb/a image with the maximum resolution generally is the template (example is 256rgb/a), the right mouse click-New multiple image format from this graphic.

The following interface pops up:

Check the required, irregular format optional--Other formats-custom, fill in the value. Save after the icon has been modified.

Replacement method and the beginning of the article "Win7 Landscaping Strategy: Replace the Imageres.dll, the icon is completely changed" is very similar to the replacement can be, especially to remember the original file remember to rename the first and rebuild the icon cache. Change the original DVI interface to VGA to connect the monitor, but the problem remains. is the motherboard's consolidated graphics card unable to support Windows7?

Helpless under the sudden thought, perhaps can enter into Safe mode to find the crux of the problem. Then restart the computer, press the "F8" button, select Safe mode into the system. After entering safe mode, Windows7, although running at the low resolution of 640x480, fortunately, the desktop background and the traditional taskbar finally appeared. hurriedly installed in Safe Mode graphics driver, this installation is smooth sailing normal completion, restart the computer, the entire picture finally returned to normal.

As a brand-new operating system, there are some problems in the drive installation of Windows7 is unavoidable. Players with related issues may choose to install in Safe mode, perhaps with some weird problems to be solved.