Windows 10: Windows 10 has dll files containing unused icons.

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DLL Files containing icons

I'm rebuilding my Win10 desktop after recovering from a failure to boot. I've used GOOGLE to obtain a list of DLL files that hold icons. They're located in the "system32" folder, along with HUNDREDS of other DLL files that DON'T
hold icons, and whose names make no sense whatever (the names of the icon-containing DLL's also make no sense whatever).

You'd think that common sense would require a unique folder (like "Icon Holders") into which the icon-containing DLL's would be held. But common sense doesn't seem to be relevant here. I've tried creating the folder I envision(in
the "system32" folder and putting copies of the icon-holding files into it. But when I go into the "change icon" procedure and browse to one of the relevant DLL files, I get a message informing me that the file in question contains no icons.

This is simply insane; why does this happen? putting a copy of a file into another folder should not change it.

 

DLL Files containing icons

Hi Jim

A DLL is a Dynamic Link Library file

That file contains source code mainly and other resources, like icons that software on your PC use for their functionality and the names of those dll's make sense to programmers, because thy are the ones that link into those files, those files are not meant
for use by the normal user . .

Moving a copy of a dll will break the chain of dll's, there are references inside a dll to other dll files and when you move a dll, that reference goes to the wrong location, because it is relative to the original file

Please explain what icons you need for your purposes, because all Windows icons are freely available on the Internet in large libraries of icon sets . . .

For example, here are the icons from inside the default DLL in Windows 10:

https://winaero.com/blog/download-icons-from-wi...

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About recent changes to the locations and content of dll files contain

It's in imageres.dll - in the top-right corner of the gallery.

Denis