Windows default media icon

Windows 7 upwards (I think) uses a built-in set of default icons for all media types; images, videos, music, etc. When looking the icons more closely with, for example, FileTypesMan the icon location is given as follows:

@{Microsoft.ZuneVideo_10.18052.10711.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe?ms-resource://Microsoft.ZuneVideo/Files/Assets/FileExtension.png}

The icon can be used with that exact copy-paste with some success, but how could I extract the icon(s) from that source and use them properly as an .ico? I'm not looking the print screen all possible icon sizes and media usages to build a proper icon from scratch.

lapingultah

Posted 2018-07-06T21:42:17.243

Reputation: 3

Answers

Icons in windows are usualy stored in DLL or EXE files.

See Where to find most of Windows 10's native icons? for some examples.

You can use the freeware Angus Johnson's Resource Hacker to extract and save the icons to a proper .ico file.

Francisco

Posted 2018-07-06T21:42:17.243

Reputation: 1

As you can see in my post, the icon is not stored in a DLL or EXE as usual. Also, I was not able to open the location in the format with Resource Hacker. – lapingultah – 2018-07-10T11:31:29.777