title: Where can I find the default icons used for folders and applications?
body: <p>I'm trying to load the default HICON that explorer displays for:  </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>An open folder</li>
  <li>An exe that has no embedded default icon of its own. This can also be seen in 'Add/Remove Programs' or 'Programs and Features' as it's called on Vista.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Do you know where these can be found? I think the folder icon might be in the resources of explorer.exe. But have no idea where the default application icon can be retrieved from.</p>
  
  <p>And additionally, do you have any sample code that could load them into HICONs.</p>
  
  <p>I really need this to work on multiple Windows OSs: 2000, XP, Vista, 2008</p>
  
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  <p>Thanks for the help so far. I'm on Vista and have looked through Shell32.dll. I don't see an icon in there that looks the same as the default one displayed by an application in explorer. I could be missing it - there are 278 icons to look through - is it definitely in there, or is there some other location I should look?</p>