Solved Using Customizer God to change system icons

MrMartin said:

The network icons do not work anymore, you must use nettraffic
also imageres icons keep duplicating

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What Network Icon? You have a settings in:-

MrMartin said:

The network icons do not work anymore, you must use nettraffic
also imageres icons keep duplicating

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Mapped Drive Icon:-

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\EXPLORER\DRIVEICONS\"%NetDrive%"\DefaultIcon
@="C:\\User_Icons\\Shell32 010.ico,0"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\EXPLORER\DRIVEICONS\"%NetDrive%"\
@="C:\\User_Icons\\Shell32 011.ico,0"

Here are the network icons from Windows 8.1 which I prefer using to the default Windows 11 icons:



These are in C:\Program Files\Explorer Patcher\pnidui.dll in 24H2 and 25H2 since the original file C:\Windows\System32\pnidui.dll has been removed in these versions. To see them you must use Explorer Patcher to ungroup the power/network/sound icons and set the taskbar style to Windows 10 (ExplorerPatcher). Enything esle simply doesn't work and you see the default Windows 11 network icons.

spapakons said:

The file C:\Windows\System32\pnidui.dll has been removed in Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. So the network icons are now found in C:\Program Files\ExplorerPatcher\pnidui.dll, provided you have Explorer Patcher installed. To see the modified icons you must switch taskbar style to Windows 10 (ExplorerPacter) or you only see the default flat icons. Also as explained in previous posts, you cannot modify the file C:\Windows\SystemResources\imageres.dll.mun (or any other file in that folder) directly. You must copy it to another folder, change the icons and then take ownership and full access rights to replace it. See my older posts.

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I also found out that i cant change the icons to windows 10 really, my exporer restrated in LOOP over so i used crtl alt delete sign out, and my pc glitched so i restarted, all fixed, also i tried installing pnidui.dll on inteernet, didnt work so here is my icon

I used nettraffic and allowed acsess to the folders so i customize icons. I also use iconviewer cuz i think my parents installed it, preety useful

spapakons said:

The file C:\Windows\System32\pnidui.dll has been removed in Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2.

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I still have it on 26H1! CG has been backing it up for the past 6 or 7 years!

Edwin said:

I still have it on 26H1! CG has been backing it up for the past 6 or 7 years!

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Yes, it's there if you upgrade from earlier Windows 11 version to 24H2 or 25H2 but not used by Windows. You can even manually copy it from earlier Windows 11 versions in C:\Windows\System32 folder. It won't make any difference as new versions ignore it. That's why Explorer Patcher provides a copy in its own application folder. Been there done that.

PS: Every time you upgrade Explorer Patcher to a new version you have to modify the icons again because the file is replaced.

To change the displayed drive icon, you can use the autorun.inf file, which is stored in the root of the drive itself. This is convenient, for example, for USB drives, which will always display a specific icon, regardless of their assigned drive letter.

Edwin said:

I still have it on 26H1! CG has been backing it up for the past 6 or 7 years!

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i have it on 25h2 i have all the versions and second off omg not 6 7 and customizergod has not you just downloaded it from internet so STOP SAYING MISINFORMATION

abactuon said:

To change the displayed drive icon, you can use the autorun.inf file, which is stored in the root of the drive itself. This is convenient, for example, for USB drives, which will always display a specific icon, regardless of their assigned drive letter.

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you are very helpful but i did it and it turned from windows 10 icons but it changed back to theese


I tried reverting ALL of them to windows 10 but some just keep duplicating like when i change info and question icons get to be the same
Also i hid the network icon here
and used netanimate to get the new icon
When you edit the files it says denied. You need to add yourself in security and allow yourself to customize icons, ifyou dont know what i mean i might put up tutorial

Rollback_Jockey said:

What Network Icon? You have a settings in:-

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No thats the desktop icon settings, we are using CustomizerGod to change the icons, Read the title
Windows 10 icons
Windows 7 icons
Windows vista icons
Please check all to see if they are right

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Customizergod does not download from the website. It took me to this

You need to download from majorgeeks instead
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So thats what happened, customizergod is probaly last time it updated. PLEASE DOOR2WINDOWS PLEASE MAKE IT COMPATIBLE FOR WINDOWS 11

spapakons said:

Here are the network icons from Windows 8.1 which I prefer using to the default Windows 11 icons:

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These are in C:\Program Files\Explorer Patcher\pnidui.dll in 24H2 and 25H2 since the original file C:\Windows\System32\pnidui.dll has been removed in these versions. To see them you must use Explorer Patcher to ungroup the power/network/sound icons and set the taskbar style to Windows 10 (ExplorerPatcher). Enything esle simply doesn't work and you see the default Windows 11 network icons.

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how do i change the icons, i am using icon viewer and want old network icons
my old pc it worked but using retrobar te tray icons broke so dont use retrobar
now i have to use netanimate

I don't have such disks and I don't know anything, but maybe you can change the icon here

MrMartin said:

i have it on 25h2 i have all the versions and second off omg not 6 7 and customizergod has not you just downloaded it from internet so STOP SAYING MISINFORMATION

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Whatever!

MrMartin said:

i have it on 25h2 i have all the versions and second off omg not 6 7 and customizergod has not you just downloaded it from internet so STOP SAYING MISINFORMATION

you are very helpful but i did it and it turned from windows 10 icons but it changed back to theese
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I tried reverting ALL of them to windows 10 but some just keep duplicating like when i change info and question icons get to be the same
Also i hid the network icon here
View attachment 158296and used netanimate to get the new icon
View attachment 158297When you edit the files it says denied. You need to add yourself in security and allow yourself to customize icons, ifyou dont know what i mean i might put up tutorial



No thats the desktop icon settings, we are using CustomizerGod to change the icons, Read the title
Windows 10 icons
Windows 7 icons
Windows vista icons
Please check all to see if they are right

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Customizergod does not download from the website. It took me to this
View attachment 158298
You need to download from majorgeeks instead
Error details

What can I do?​

If you're a visitor of this website:​

Please try again in a few minutes.

If you're the owner of this website:​

Contact your hosting provider letting them know your web server is not completing requests. An Error 522 means that the request was able to connect to your web server, but that the request didn't finish. The most likely cause is that something on your server is hogging resources. Additional troubleshooting information here.

What happened?​

The initial connection between Cloudflare's network and the origin web server timed out. As a result, the web page can not be displayed.

So thats what happened, customizergod is probaly last time it updated. PLEASE DOOR2WINDOWS PLEASE MAKE IT COMPATIBLE FOR WINDOWS 11
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how do i change the icons, i am using icon viewer and want old network icons
my old pc it worked but using retrobar te tray icons broke so dont use retrobar
now i have to use netanimate
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If you want to take the icons from the respective file C:\Windows\System32\pnidui.dll of Windows 7 or 8.1, then open it in Customizer God and select all icons. Then click on the down arrow icon to reveal more options (in the old version I am using, don't know about newer versions) and click Export Selected Resources. This will extract all icons in a folder with specific file names reflecting their position in the file. Don't rename them to facilitate automatic replacement! To replace the network icons, make sure you have Explorer Patcher installed. Then as I already said, you have to open the file in the Explorer Patcher folder, that is C:\Program Files\ExplorerPatcher\pnidui.dll. Then select all icons and click Replace. Browse to the folder with the icons. This will match the respective icon number based on filenames and save you the trouble to replace them one by one.

Regarding C:\Windows\System32\Shell32.dll, this files contains the default Windows 11 system icons and CANNOT be modified. If you do modify it, Windows will not boot because of signature mismach! DON'T touch that file, never! If you want to modify the system icons, open the file C:\Windows\SystemResources\imageres.dll.mun instead. Don't open it directly, it will fail due to access rights. Copy it to another folder, modify the icons and then take ownership and full access rights to replace the original file.

Also every time there is an upgrade to Windows system files or Explorer Patcher the respective icons will be restored to default because the files are being replaced and you have to customize them again.


You can download Customizer God from these sites:

spapakons said:

If you want to take the icons from the respective file C:\Windows\System32\pnidui.dll of Windows 7 or 8.1, then open it in Customizer God and select all icons. Then click on the down arrow icon to reveal more options (in the old version I am using, don't know about newer versions) and click Export Selected Resources. This will extract all icons in a folder with specific file names reflecting their position in the file. Don't rename them to facilitate automatic replacement! To replace the network icons, make sure you have Explorer Patcher installed. Then as I already said, you have to open the file in the Explorer Patcher folder, that is C:\Program Files\ExplorerPatcher\pnidui.dll. Then select all icons and click Replace. Browse to the folder with the icons. This will match the respective icon number based on filenames and save you the trouble to replace them one by one.

Regarding C:\Windows\System32\Shell32.dll, this files contains the default Windows 11 system icons and CANNOT be modified. If you do modify it, Windows will not boot because of signature mismach! DON'T touch that file, never! If you want to modify the system icons, open the file C:\Windows\SystemResources\imageres.dll.mun instead. Don't open it directly, it will fail due to access rights. Copy it to another folder, modify the icons and then take ownership and full access rights to replace the original file.

Also every time there is an upgrade to Windows system files or Explorer Patcher the respective icons will be restored to default because the files are being replaced and you have to customize them again.


You can download Customizer God from these sites:

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Download CustomizerGod 1.7.6.1 - MajorGeeks

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I dont know if you can see this but here is the explorerpatcher pnidui

Here is another pnidui dll i put in system32 and modified it

I do not care about the windows 7 or 8.1 icons to be honest
I am reffering to this topic on the windows 10 forums right here
It worked on my other PC which does not work due to a driver issue

So do jsut take out the pnidui from explorerpatcher and use customizerod to change it and put the modified back to where it was

Here are sets you can use

Im trying to do this on windows 10 PCs but people always foil my plans. BRO WHY I WANT TO TRY AT SCHOOL BUT I NEED UAC BRO WHAT THE HECK

Replace globe with an X icon, wifi or Ethernet, your choice
Replace the 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, bar icons with the warning icon, wifi or Ethernet, your choice
Replace flight mode icon with Asterisk icon (IF YOU CHOOSE EHTHERNET CHOOSE RED X)
If you use both but use wifi more set ethernet icon to Warning (Wifi or ethernet, your choice)

I only use CG to rid the Navigation Pane of those stupid push pins.

MrMartin said:

Im trying to do this on windows 10 PCs but people always foil my plans. BRO WHY I WANT TO TRY AT SCHOOL BUT I NEED UAC BRO WHAT THE HECK

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Yeah… it’s called a domain, and they’re called Group Policies

Like bro

dacrone said:

Yeah… it’s called a domain, and they’re called Group Policies

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Bitlocker and my mums IT foiled my plans

Edwin said:

I only use CG to rid the Navigation Pane of those stupid push pins.

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Ok, i stopped using it cuz my pc corrupted so i had to restart the pc to fix it and had to use DISM to fix the corruption
My whole entire PC including the taskbar and restart screen glitched so i used dism

I use customizergod to make windows 11 look like windows 10
My progress so far

The UAC shields reverted to windows 11 and the folders too, and the drives reverted back

As mentioned, I use CG for that one single, 'no permissions' task..., everything else is governed by Icon Packager..., no corruption...

MrMartin said:

I dont know if you can see this but here is the explorerpatcher pnidui
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Here is another pnidui dll i put in system32 and modified it
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I do not care about the windows 7 or 8.1 icons to be honest
I am reffering to this topic on the windows 10 forums right here
It worked on my other PC which does not work due to a driver issue

So do jsut take out the pnidui from explorerpatcher and use customizerod to change it and put the modified back to where it was

Here are sets you can use
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Im trying to do this on windows 10 PCs but people always foil my plans. BRO WHY I WANT TO TRY AT SCHOOL BUT I NEED UAC BRO WHAT THE HECK

Replace globe with an X icon, wifi or Ethernet, your choice
Replace the 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, bar icons with the warning icon, wifi or Ethernet, your choice
Replace flight mode icon with Asterisk icon (IF YOU CHOOSE EHTHERNET CHOOSE RED X)
If you use both but use wifi more set ethernet icon to Warning (Wifi or ethernet, your choice)

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All the icons in the first screenshot are the default Windows 11 plain white icons and they don't show well on white background. In Customizer God there is a light blue background that makes them all visible. Just open the file I told you and click on the desired icon to modify. Then click on replace and select your custom icon. Do that for the rest icons, changes are save automatically. To take effect and see them you must restart the computer or just restart File Explorer. Easy to restart File Explorer from Explorer Patcher.

spapakons said:

All the icons in the first screenshot are the default Windows 11 plain white icons and they don't show well on white background. In Customizer God there is a light blue background that makes them all visible. Just open the file I told you and click on the desired icon to modify. Then click on replace and select your custom icon. Do that for the rest icons, changes are save automatically. To take effect and see them you must restart the computer or just restart File Explorer. Easy to restart File Explorer from Explorer Patcher.

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yeah thefirst pic is explorerpatchers
i can only modify the second picture

is it safe to delete the explorerpatcher pnidui and then put a modified version in

Edwin said:

As mentioned, I use CG for that one single, 'no permissions' task..., everything else is governed by Icon Packager..., no corruption...

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Cool desktop but the winver dialog is edited your definetly in 25h2 cuz 26h2 doesnot exist yet

MrMartin said:

the winver dialog is edited

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The dark winver is compliments of StartAllBack.