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How to edit images inside your dll,s exe's or cpl files
How to edit images in dll's, .cpl's and exe's using restorator
In this tutorial I will show you how to edit images for themes in your cpl's, dll's and exe files
Step 1. First make a folder on your desktop or my documents whichever you wish it makes no difference and name it whatever you like
the name does not matter.
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Step 2. You will now need to go to your system32 folder located here cdrive\windows\system32 and scroll in the folder to the
.cpl, .exe or .dll your would like to edit ( for this tutorial I will be using the timedate.cpl as the example). Once you have
located your file you will now need to take ownership of it. There is 2 ways to do this with dll's you can simple use a take ownership
tweak for .cpl's and .exe's you will need to take ownership manually. I have created a tutorial for that here on both methods just
follow the tutorial it's not a hard process either way the tutorial can be found here: https://virtualcustoms.net/showthread...-for-exe-s-cpl
Step 3. Once you have taken ownership of the file you will now right click on the file and copy it and paste it to the folder you have made on your desktop or in your my documents folder.
Step 4. Once the file has been copied to the folder open up restorator click file in the top right corner and open then navigate to the folder where you have copied your file to and select it. once open in restorator you will now notice a set of folders in the dll,
exe or cpl in the case of the timedate.cpl it will be the png folder that we will edit our images in as showin in the screen below you just click the little arrow head at the left of the folder to expand it.
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if you are doing this process or the explorer.exe, explorerframe.dll when you have it open in restorator it will be the bitmap folder you will edit images in instead of the png folder as in the timedate.cpl that is being used for this tut I will show you the explorerframe.dll in restorator below:
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Step 5. Now open the folder where you have the images you are going to replace in the dll, exe or cpl file. The images will be numbered the same as what you see in the png or bitmap folder in the exe, cpl or dll file. If you are making your own images the numbers do not have to be the same when you make them as long as you make them the same size and type as in the dll meaning in bitmap format or png format, because when you move the images over reatorator will automatically number them the same in your file. So you just drag and drop the images from your image folder to the same number in the file
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Step 6. Once you have replaced all the images in the dll, exe or cpl file you will now go to the top left of restorator and click file then in the drop down menu click save and close the application you have now replaced the images in your file.
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Step 7. Now open your System32 folder go to the dll, exe or cpl file you would like to replace and rename it to .old so in the case of the timedate.cpl your would rename it to timedate.cpl.old, explorer.exe would be explorer.exe.old once you have done that copy the dll from the folder on your desktop and paste it into the system32 folder ( you do this for all dll's, exe's or cpl files except the explorer.exe this one is located just in the windows folder so if editing that one you would paste it there).
Step 8. Now reboot your computer and after reboot your new dll, exe or cpl file will be active and you can go back and delete the one you renamed to .old.Last edited by Big V; August 21st, 2011 at 03:17 AM.
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