I am having difficulty finding the location of the plain windows icon in Windows 10. In the past, the winver.exe file was a reliable source for this icon, however, it is no longer present. I have attempted searching for the icon in common locations such as explorer.exe and shell32.dll, but it has not been found in these places.
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The plain Windows icon in Windows 10 can be found in the C:\Windows\system32\shell32.dll file. You can open this file using an icon extractor or resource editor program to view and extract the icon.
Additional locations where you can find icons in Windows 10 include:
- C:\Windows\system32\imageres.dll
- C:\Windows\system32\winres.dll
- C:\Windows\system32\winload.exe (for the Windows boot screen logo)
- In the folder C:\Windows\Web\4K\Wallpaper (contain Windows 10 default icons and wallpapers)
- In the folder C:\Windows\installer$PatchCache$\Managed (contain icons used by installed software)
It’s worth noting that some of these locations may not exist on your specific version of Windows or may have been moved or renamed. Additionally, some icons may be embedded within other files, such as application executables or DLLs.