Solved Using Customizer God to change system icons

MrMartin · Jan 2, 2026

spapakons said:
You probably have to replace the icons in Windows Defender executable or some .dll file in the folder

C:\Program Files\Windows Defender

I don't know which one, haven't done it.

since you hate the flat icons you can change your epp.maniffest.dll to the microsoft security essentials icon
and im not sure about onedrive but i hate this icon

its so trash bro, this happened to my school pcs too with blue onedrive

you can hide the action centre icon

MrMartin · Jan 2, 2026

Edwin said:
So insignificant, why spend so much time on it!?

we are finding how to change the ugly windows 11 flat icons to whidows 7 ones

Edwin · Jan 2, 2026

Hide 'em in the SysTray so you don't have to look at them.

MrMartin · Jan 2, 2026

Edwin said:
Hide 'em in the SysTray so you don't have to look at them.

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no, we want to know our battery, network and sound

and second i prefer windows 10 icons, might put 7 too

spapakons · Jan 2, 2026

MrMartin said:
since you hate the flat icons you can change your epp.maniffest.dll to the microsoft security essentials icon
and im not sure about onedrive but i hate this icon
View attachment 158627its so trash bro, this happened to my school pcs too with blue onedrive

you can hide the action centre icon

Don't use the OneDrive app from Microsoft Store (flat icon). Download the desktop version (nice blue icon). Same for Skype, although now it has been replaced by Microsoft Teams. In general, if there are both desktop and UWP (Universal Windows Platform aka Metro interface, Microsoft Store) versions, I always prefer the desktop version of any application to get the nicer interface and usually all features while the UWP version might lack some features.

MrMartin · Jan 2, 2026

spapakons said:
Don't use the OneDrive app from Microsoft Store (flat icon). Download the desktop version (nice blue icon). Same for Skype, although now it has been replaced by Microsoft Teams. In general, if there are both desktop and UWP (Universal Windows Platform aka Metro interface, Microsoft Store) versions, I always prefer the desktop version of any app or game.

i have to keep onedrive for safe reasons
to change icon for network in 24h2

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spapakons · Jan 2, 2026

MrMartin said:
i have to keep onedrive for safe reasons
to change icon for network in 24h2

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I just modify the C:\Program Files\Explorer Patcher\pnidui.dll file for the network icons and the
C:\Windows\SystemResources\SndVolSSO.dll.mun file for the sound icons with Customizer God.

This is how they look like in my system:

I just remind everyone that I must select "Windows 10 (ExplorerPatcher)" style for the taskbar, or these custom icons are ignored and I see the ugly flat defaults.

MrMartin · Jan 2, 2026

spapakons said:
I just modify the C:\Program Files\Explorer Patcher\pnidui.dll file for the network icons and the
C:\Windows\SystemResources\SndVolSSO.dll.mun file for the sound icons with Customizer God.

This is how they look like in my system:

View attachment 158636

I just remind everyone that I must select "Windows 10 (ExplorerPatcher)" style for the taskbar, or these custom icons are ignored and I see the ugly flat defaults.

wait, do i delete my modified pnidui from system32 and move explorerpatcher pnidui to the system32 and use customizergod

spapakons · Jan 2, 2026

MrMartin said:
wait, do i delete my modified pnidui from system32 and move explorerpatcher pnidui to the system32 and use customizergod

No need, just open C:\Program Files\Explorer Patcher\pnidui.dll directly in CustomizerGod and replace the icons. Restart File Explorer to see the new icons.

MrMartin · Jan 2, 2026

spapakons said:
No need, just open C:\Program Files\Explorer Patcher\pnidui.dll directly in CustomizerGod and replace the icons. Restart File Explorer to see the new icons.

Thank you did not know that

yesssssssssssssssssss i did it

MrMartin · Jan 2, 2026

spapakons said:
No need, just open C:\Program Files\Explorer Patcher\pnidui.dll directly in CustomizerGod and replace the icons. Restart File Explorer to see the new icons.

expect one problem

the icons keep duplicatin eg if i change high volume to something and error to another both turn the same

spapakons · Jan 2, 2026

You cannot modify the files in SystemResources folder directly. You must copy them to another folder, modify them, take ownership of both the original folder and the original file, get full access rights and close (end task) File Explorer so they are not used and you can replace them. If you do it a couple of times it is easier than it sounds.

MrMartin · Jan 2, 2026

spapakons said:
You cannot modify the files in SystemResources folder directly. You must copy them to another folder, modify them, take ownership of both the original folder and the original file, get full access rights and close (end task) File Explorer so they are not used and you can replace them. If you do it a couple of times it is easier than it sounds.

i am not using systemresources

im trying to change the windows 10 volume to windows 7
i sucsessfully did the network on explorerpatcher and replaced the netanimate one with fake action centre

spapakons · Jan 2, 2026

Since Windows 10 version 1903 some specific system files were moved from System32 folder to SystemResources folder. These include the battery icon, the sound icon, the USB safe ejection icon and most folder/file icons. While you could modify all files in System32 folder directly with Customizer God, the respective files in SystemResources folder produce errors you must copy them to another folder to modify them. In Windows 10 1903 or higher and all Windows 11 versions, the sound icons are in SndVolSSO.dl.mun file. I copy them to a folder such as C:\Temp, modify them and then get full access rights to replace them, see my previous posts.

MrMartin · Jan 2, 2026

spapakons said:
Since Windows 10 version 1903 some specific system files were moved from System32 folder to SystemResources folder. These include the battery icon, the sound icon, the USB safe ejection icon and most folder/file icons. While you could modify all files in System32 folder directly with Customizer God, the respective files in SystemResources folder produce errors you must copy them to another folder to modify them. In Windows 10 1903 or higher and all Windows 11 versions, the sound icons are in SndVolSSO.dl.mun file. I copy them to a folder such as C:\Temp, modify them and then get full access rights to replace them, see my previous posts.

surprisingly stobject.dll looks like this
ease of acsess things

MrMartin · Jan 2, 2026

it didnt work, mun files wont work

MrMartin · Jan 2, 2026

mui files dont exist
how do i fix my problem, icons duplicating
is it also safe to change the windws defender icon

spapakons · Jan 2, 2026

MrMartin said:
surprisingly stobject.dll looks like this
ease of acsess things
View attachment 158668

Icon #210 is the one you see when you connect a USB flash drive or USB disk. That's the one you click on for safe removal.

MrMartin · Jan 2, 2026

spapakons said:
Icon #210 is the one you see when you connect a USB flash drive or USB disk. That's the one you click on for safe removal.

i do not have safe remove icon yet, i will do it tommoworw, and i used resourse hacker and didnt work didnt show icons
and i am trying to change volume
i have a floppy drive which i can store icons here

spapakons · Jan 2, 2026

MrMartin said:
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mui files dont exist
how do i fix my problem, icons duplicating
is it also safe to change the windws defender icon

If you open File Explorer to C:\Windows\SystemResources folder you will see many files. For the battery icon is batmeter.dll.mun For all system icons is imageres.dll.mun For sound is SndVolSSO.dll.mun and for USB safe ejection icon is stobject.dll.mun

Since Customizer God expects standard .dll icons, it doesn't show them by default. You have to either change file type to *.* to see them or manually type the first letters of their filename. I don't know about new versions, but in my old version you press CTRL+O to open a file.

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