Roundup of all the dated Icons from Windows 7

[Atomic Wanderer Chicken]

I took the time and rounded up all the dated icons I found in Windows 7. :laugh: They are all from the system32 folder where pc users don't really see them (probably the reason they're not updated)! Some icons look like they are straight from 3.11.

[Quillz]

Some are from the Win3.x days. The sad thing is these icons will probably never be changed. And even if they were, it wouldn't make much difference unless all the legacy dialog boxes, with battleship gray, are changed as well. Win7 and Win8 have a Control Panel with modal windows, non-modal windows, etc. It's a mess.

I remember Vista had the Win3.x font installation wizard left over.

[Phouchg]

There's a lot more of XP style icons in shell32.dll now that imageres.dll has taken over storing up-to-date folder icons and such.

[Ian W]

You forgot a few.

More legacy icons, along with other visual inconsistencies in the operating system, can be seen at the Windows 7 Taskforce.