How To Access And Use Window 7’s High Res Device Icons

How To Access And Use Window 7’s High Res Device Icons

Windows 7 introduces some serious eye-candy when it comes to Device icons. Rather than using boring generic icons for devices, there are some great high-res images of your actual equipment e.g. an iPhone:

Windows 7 contains a huge library of Device icons, and these are being added to every week, and istartedsomething have discovered the location of these icons so that you can use them in other locations. To access the icons open a new Explorer Window and:

• go to the following directory: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Device Metadata\dmrccache\
• Navigate to the relevant folder for your region (e.g. en-US) and inside you’ll find icons which can create shortcuts to

For more information on how to grab all of all of the icons so that you can use them elsewhere, then check out Long Zheng’s instructions. Below are some of the icons he managed to grab:

source: windows7news.com