Search for icons in files

I am sure they all are not stored in one single location because that would be too simple and too easy. Thank you! This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse.

Details required :. Cancel Submit. DaveM Independent Advisor. Hi TemporaryUser All Windows and application icons are not stored as images on your hard drive, they are encoded inside dll's and the program executables and are not accessible to the user. For example, right click an application icon on your desktop and choose properties On the resulting dialog, click 'Change icon' if there is a set of icons in the program executable, you will see them there - but they are inaccessible as an image file, because they are encoded into the exe, or an application dll To get a version of those icons, google 'windows 10 icon sets' you will find plenty of really high quality versions of those icons.

How satisfied are you with this reply? Click on the icon for Other Properties. In the Search field after the property name and colon, you can then type a specific value. For example, if you select Type, you can enter document or picture as the specific type.

If you select Folder Path, you can enter a specific pathname. You can also add multiple properties to a single search Figure E. To access past searches, click on the icon for Recent Searches and select the search you want to run again. Next, Windows indexes and looks in certain locations to speed up your searches, but you can change that. Click on the Advanced Options icon. Click on the option to Change Indexed Locations.

From the Indexing Options window, you can add or remove locations in the index. Click Close when done. Go back to Advanced Options. Select or deselect any of the three non-indexed locations that you want to include or exclude in your search, specifically File Contents, System Files, or Zipped Compressed Folders Figure F.

To save your current search criteria and options, click on the icon to Save Search. Type a name for the search or leave the default name. Keep the default location. Click Save Figure G. Finally, to open the entire folder for a specific file from the search results, click on the file and then click on the icon to Open File Location.

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In reply to Darrenlyf's post on October 3, Hello, I tried rebuilding icon cache for a second time but it didn't worked. I am currently using the latest version of Windows BhavikJadav1 Independent Advisor. Are you using an external monitor? Please try to create a new user account and see if the icons are fine there or not Thanks Bhavik Microsoft Community Independent Advisor.

In reply to BhavikJadav1's post on October 5, Hi Bhavik, I too am facing similar issues. I would appreciate any form of help you can offer.