top | item 47124818 (no title) M95D | 6 days ago Moricons.dll had icons for various DOS programs like word perfect.The icons used in desktop are/were in progman.exe, shell32.dll and control.exe (IIRC, it was a long time ago). discuss order hn newest sillywalk|6 days ago Raymond Chen has more on this:What were the MS-DOS programs that Windows used the progman.exe stock icons for?https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250506-00/?p=11...What were the intended uses of those icons in moricons.dll?https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250505-00/?p=11... rzzzt|6 days ago shell32.dll is unfortunately modernized on modern versions of Windows, with very few exceptions :( the Novell tree is still there.
sillywalk|6 days ago Raymond Chen has more on this:What were the MS-DOS programs that Windows used the progman.exe stock icons for?https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250506-00/?p=11...What were the intended uses of those icons in moricons.dll?https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250505-00/?p=11...
rzzzt|6 days ago shell32.dll is unfortunately modernized on modern versions of Windows, with very few exceptions :( the Novell tree is still there.
sillywalk|6 days ago
What were the MS-DOS programs that Windows used the progman.exe stock icons for?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250506-00/?p=11...
What were the intended uses of those icons in moricons.dll?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250505-00/?p=11...
rzzzt|6 days ago