Comments on: Admiring Windows 7′s high-resolution device icons

By: NoName

NoName — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:12:21 +0000

For the Cruizer example (which I have and checked, Cruizer icon is shown), this entry gives me {4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318} as you describe, meaning “DiskDrive”.

None of the entries in Device Manager gives {b3004f87-774a-4cc6-9c51-89264da4ed5a}, although this is a sub-directory of the dmrccache directory. I have checked all the ID’s shown in the properties, including the USB controller ‘tree’.

There must be some other way tho correctly extract the GUID from the device.

By: spoonyfork

spoonyfork — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:05:56 +0000

You can find GUIDs in the Device Manager. On Windows 7 open Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager -> expand the desired category tree -> right click on the device select Properties -> Details tab -> select property “Device class guid” -> right click on the Value and copy to clipboard.

By: danieljhuffman

danieljhuffman — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:09:14 +0000

Anyone find a good way of figuring out a device’s GUID?

By: Peter Janak

Peter Janak — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:46:58 +0000

I want to know how to set my realistic Icon for my Printer. When I first installed it should the correct icon. An exact image of my printer. But I had to reinstall the printer a number of times. Now it just shows a generic printer and there is no menu option to set the device to realist icons

By: JFT

JFT — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:52:20 +0000

Try this feedback form for Windows 7:
http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Windows%207/Feedback.aspx?formID=195

It can’t hurt if you let MS know you’d like to be able to manually change the icons without any of the resource hacking what not. It’d be sweet if they actually implemented it. People are gonna hack them anyway, that’s not what MS want. Also there’s loads of people who get the wrong icons or their icons change randomly.

So everybody, let them know you want a “Change icon” option in there!

By: Kervin

Kervin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:34:01 +0000

Where can we modify the icons of bluetooth devices?

By: SVDA

SVDA — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:58:42 +0000

The GUID for razer copperhead is 28A946E1-E83B-4662-BC7C-23451851489E
I had the icon, but it has dissapeared, I don’t know why.
I tried to download it at :
http://download.dmd.metaservices.microsoft.com/dp/winqual/28a946e1-e83 b-4662-bc7c-23451851489e.devicemetadata-ms
But all I get is :
404 – File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

What am I doing wrong?

By: evilspam

evilspam — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:18:24 +0000

Is there a good tutorial on how to make .devicemetadata-ms files ? Because I just want to add some icons for some old devices I use, and Windows keep deleting the extra stuff I put on AppData\Local\Microsoft\Device Metadata\dmrccache

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:14:22 +0000

Very funny that they wouldn’t have this one! Are you sure? So there, Apple!

By: vic

vic — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:15:52 +0000

Thank you Darookan!