When you right click on an internet link shortcut > Properties > Change icon... you can set custom icons for links in your Internet Explorer Favorites folder. After you do that, why does clicking on Change icon... always show %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll instead of the location of your custom icons for your Internet Explorer Favorites links? This behavior started happening with IE 7. If you check on IE 6 on old systems, it still correctly shows the actual custom icon location, but not IE7 or later, is this a bug?

Hi, Thanks for the post! This behavior is by design, the icons are installed in SHELL32.DLL, check this:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5036238/Win%207%20shell32.dll%20icons.jpg, here's a list of all the icons included in SHELL32.DLL Regards, Miya Please Not: Since this website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. | Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Why would the old default icon location be permanently displayed by design *after* you set a different custom icon location? This does not happen with program shortcuts so why with internet shortcuts? If you change a program shortcut icon, Windows will *always* show the custom icon location in Properties. But if you change a custom icon location for an internet shortcut, even though it will be displayed correctly, Windows would *always* show SHELL32.dll in properties instead of your custom icon location, do you understand what I'm saying, once you change to a custom icon - it is no longer SHELL32.dll, so why in the Properties does it permanently show SHELL32.dll as the shortcut icon, when it no longer is? In other words, after you change the internet shortcut icon - you have no way of finding out the location of your custom icon, since SHELL32.dll is shown in Properties, which is now incorrect - since you changed it to a custom icon, located elsewhere on your system. Example, this is how Internet Explorer 6 correctly displays a custom icon location, but as soon as you update from IE6, this no longer shows up correctly like this, click here .

Why would the old default icon location be permanently displayed by design *after* you set a different custom icon location? This does not happen with program shortcuts so why with internet shortcuts? If you change a program shortcut icon, Windows will *always* show the custom icon location in Properties. But if you change a custom icon location for an internet shortcut, even though it will be displayed correctly, Windows would *always* show SHELL32.dll in properties instead of your custom icon location, do you understand what I'm saying, once you change to a custom icon - it is no longer SHELL32.dll, so why in the Properties does it permanently show SHELL32.dll as the shortcut icon, when it no longer is? In other words, after you change the internet shortcut icon - you have no way of finding out the location of your custom icon, since SHELL32.dll is shown in Properties, which is now incorrect - since you changed it to a custom icon, located elsewhere on your system.