Where are native Windows 8 icons located?

Question

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.

Solution 1

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

Solution 2

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

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:

Solution 3

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?

Solution 4

I just found that here: XAML Icons

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

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Comments

[studiohack]

Nice answer! +1

[vanessa]

I can use Photoshop to create any icon I want, or try to find them on google. But I'm looking for just a file with native Microsoft Windows 8 icons in c:/windows

[Brad Patton]

Welcome to SuperUser. Thanks for your answer I removed the salutation as we want answers to stand on their own.

[vanessa]

Nice site you found :)

[user31389]

Helped me to set a "My Pictures" icon on my own pictures folder. Thanks.

[Xodarap777]

This looks like an excellent answer. It was at -1. Or did the edit fix a previous issue?

[syncdk]

This is the same for Windows 10.

[SDsolar]

With Windows 95, 98, ME, I used c:/windows/progman.exe and it was full of the exact icons I need. I can't find anything similar in Win8