Change default Icon folder


Widows11bear

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I want to change many icons in my music collection. When I click "properties/customize/change icon" I get taken to "%systemroot%system32\shell32.dll". This seems to be the default icons library.
What I want to do is make the change icon button point to C:/icons which is my own, much better, collection of icons.
Any help, please?
 

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Click the browse option,

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Thank you for your reply .
I am aware that I can use the browse button in %systemroot%system32\shell32.dll so as to gain access to my desired icon folder (C:/Icons).
What I want to try and acheive is to make the "change Icon" button in the folder properties window take me straight to C:/icons instead of having to go to %systemroot%system32\shell32.dll and then having to browse for it from there.
I appreciate it is not much effort to browse from %systemroot%system32\shell32.dll, but i have many hundred of icons to change and I am trying to simplify matters. Further, I never use any of the icons in %systemroot%system32\shell32.dll, so i could really use a fix to bypass it.
In my limited knowledge I think there might be a registry fix?

Thanks again

Dave
 

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    Windows 11 Pro
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    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Miniflair NAD09
    CPU
    12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900h
    Motherboard
    EShenzhen Meigao Model AHBAA (U3E1) Versione Vendor Intel Southbridge Model ID5182
    Memory
    Size 65314 MBytes
    Graphics Card(s)
    C32F39M on Intel Iris Xe Graphics
    Sound Card
    Sound Card High Definition Audio Device Playback Device C32F39M (HD Audio Driver for Display Audio)
    Hard Drives
    ST2000LM015-2E8174 (SSD)
    XPG GAMMIX S70 BLADE (SSD)
    WD My Passport 25E2 USB Device (SSD)
    Seagate Expansion Desk SCSI Disk Device
    Seagate Expansion Desk SCSI Disk Device
I'm updating Win 10 at the moment. From memory if you copy and paste your icons location in the box and click ok then the next time you open it, it will be for that location. You'll need to do the same after a new boot but it remains for that session. Will check out later.
Edit,nope not working in Win 10 :(
 

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    M1605YA
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    15.0GB Dual-Channel DDR4 @ 1596MHz (22-22-22-52)
    Graphics Card(s)
    512MB ATI AMD Radeon Graphics (ASUStek Computer Inc)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Generic PnP Monitor (1920x1200@60Hz) - P1 PLUS (1920x1080@59Hz)
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    Realtek Audio. NVIDIA High Definition Audio
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    180 Watt, 19.5 V
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    Lenovo Bluetooth
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    500 Mbps
    Browser
    Edge
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    Defender
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