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Vista Console Applets for XPby !Picassa243

Customization / Skins & Themes / Windows Utilities / Other

I was browsing through the internet when I noticed that Stardock's Icon Packager does not have the capabiltiy to change the icons of .msc files so I looked into the binary of Vista's MMC applets and took out the icon code for it and integrated it into the XP's MMC applets. Now they resemble and behave like Vista ones. Also no Resource Editor can change the icons of these applets as they are not valid Windows Executables. Also some people at MSFN and Stardock forums complained the same. So I release them here.

Currently I have applied this to SP3 edition of XP. Note that these applets will be non-functional on XP SP2.

If you want these applets to be working for XP SP2 as well please upload all .msc applets from XP SP2. Only the ones, I have mentioned in the screen and I will modify the binary for you.

You can put these directly in system32 with no WFP prompts.

Also note that comexp.msc goes to %windir%\system32\Com

SP3 users Download from here

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Updates

Added eventvwr.msc, gpedit.msc and rsop.msc

SP3 users Download updates from here

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Now including support for SP2 users

SP2 users Download from here

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~delta9-4hC Nov 3, 2008

There's no hex editing necessary.

This is a quick tutorial on how you change the MSC icons.

Run... MMC
Open a .msc file (from c:\windows\system32)
Choose: File > Options
Change Icon
Save as...

this tutorial has no proprietary rights, its simply a feature of the Microsoft Management Console.

The icons within the msc file contains one 16px and one 32 px file both at 16 bit color depth, I don't recommend trying to go outside of that boundary.

!Picassa243 Nov 3, 2008

If you open it with Notepad then you would notice. And yes your right cause I noticed that later.

~delta9-4hC Nov 4, 2008

yes I noticed the <Binary Name="CONSOLE_FILE_ICON_SMALL/LARGE"> section and I'm aware how to encode an icon into base 64 and impliment it into a XML file, I just wanted to mention it to you in case you were still doing it the hard way.

They look nice by the way.