A treasure trove of high-res device icons in Windows 7

by Lee Mathews on June 5, 2009 at 02:00 PM

Long Zheng has been digging around again, and uncovered some pretty stunning high-resolution icons for the myriad of devices Windows 7 supports out-of-the-box.

Many of them are packed in DDORes.dll in your %systemroot%\system32 folder. If you'd like to manually assign one of the icons from the DLL to another shortcut, download IconsExtract from NirSoft (as always with Nir, it's a free application).

Browse to DDORES.dll, select the icons you want to extract (there are 81 in total) , and choose "save selected icons" from the file menu. Someone has also uploaded them to Rapidspread, in case you don't have access to a Windows 7 install.

Looking for more icons? Feedbacktool.dll, Shell32.dll (of course), and wmp.dll are good places to start. If you find some more, feel free to share them in the comments!