Customizing system icons without modifying system files with Windhawk
There’s no easy way to customize system icons on Windows. There are tools, such as 7TSP, which make it easier to customize system icons by patching system files. This approach works, but has several drawbacks. Patching system files can be dangerous, can be difficult to revert, and the patched files can be overridden by a Windows update.
With the Windhawk Resource Redirect mod, icon themes can be installed without modifying system files. What the mod does instead is redirecting the loaded icon files to a different folder, making all programs load alternative icons without actually touching the original icons on the disk. This redirection is only done in memory, and can be disabled easily and safely by disabling the mod or exiting Windhawk.
More than 50 icon themes can be found in the Resource Redirect icon themes repository. Below is a short video demonstrating the mod. I want to thank Undisputed00x who collected the icon themes, converted them to the right format, and organized them nicely in the repository.
Click on the image to view the demo video on YouTube.
Hello, I already have a &tsp theme .zip file, I was able to get those .dll files there are 5 .dll files, I don’t know what to do with those .dll files, it says https://github.com/niivu/resource-redirect-icon-themes?tab=readme-ov-file#converting-7tsp-themes:~:text=with%20the%20normal%20icon%20theme%20making%20steps!
but where are those steps? can you link them, please
I’m not sure what you’re asking, you linked to steps for converting 7TSP themes to Resource Redirect themes. If you don’t understand some of the steps, you need to be more specific regarding the step you need help with.
I’ve extracted .dll files using Resource, hacker, as mentioned in those steps, I had 5 .res files in 7tsp’s zip, and I converted all of them to .dll now as a last step it mentions to follow “normal icon theme making steps!” where can I find those steps?
To put it plainly I don’t know, what to do with those dlls.
It refers to the mod description here:
https://windhawk.net/mods/icon-resource-redirect
If it understand this correctly, I’ve to find, the specific .dll in C:// and add that path to “The redirected resource file” and the corresponding 7tsp’s .dll to “The redirection resource file” and save it to work?
Yes, sounds about right.
Thanks for the help