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A treasure trove of high-res device icons in Windows 7
by Lee Mathews Jun 5th 2009 at 2:00PM
Many of them are packed in DDORes.dll in your %systemroot%\system32 folder. If you'd like to manually assign one of the icons from the DLL to another shortcut, download IconsExtract from NirSoft (as always with Nir, it's a free application).
Browse to DDORES.dll, select the icons you want to extract (there are 81 in total) , and choose "save selected icons" from the file menu. Someone has also uploaded them to Rapidspread, in case you don't have access to a Windows 7 install.
Looking for more icons? Feedbacktool.dll, Shell32.dll (of course), and wmp.dll are good places to start. If you find some more, feel free to share them in the comments!
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Chris M said 4:38PM on 6-05-2009
Don't forget imageres.dll! It has quite a few high-res icons.
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