Where are native Windows 8 icons located?

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I'm talking about simple white icons that appears on start screen. I want to use them on shortcuts. So, I need a file or .dll that contains metro icons.

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score 15 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 08 '13 at 07:06

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They are located in %windir%\System32\imageres.dll

edited Jan 08 '13 at 07:06

Sathyajith Bhat

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answered Jan 08 '13 at 05:50

Rohit Meshram

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score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 19 '12 at 20:44

While this isn't the "official" icons, there is the alternative of creating them through Syncfusion's Metro Studio v2 (which is currently free):

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Syncfusion Metro Studio is a collection of over 1700 Metro-style icon templates that can be easily customized to create thousands of unique Metro icons.

There are tons of icons already made, and you can create your own:

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score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 25 '18 at 23:01

There are several files:

C:\Windows\System32\DDORes.dll

C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll

C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll

C:\Windows\System32\dmdskres.dll

C:\Windows\System32\comres.dll

C:\Windows\System32\mmsres.dll

C:\Windows\System32\setupapi.dll

C:\Windows\explorer.exe

C:\Windows\System32\pifmgr.dll -> This ones dates back to Win95

Listed are the ones I've found that come included in Windows 8 / Windows 8.1, does anyone know of others?

Tom · Answer 4 · 2013-06-11T12:46:55.300

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I just found that here: XAML Icons

Helped me a lot and is much cheaper than Metro Studio.

Search view Random icons Icon editor XAML Code

edited Jun 11 '13 at 12:46

answered May 29 '13 at 14:39

Tom

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score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 04 '15 at 06:58

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Try using the Run command and the following folder -

C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\

When the folder opens it will be blank, but do a search using *.ico and the favicon files should appear.

edited Jun 04 '15 at 06:58

Kunal

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answered Jun 04 '15 at 03:08

Bob Otis

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Where are native Windows 8 icons located?

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