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Windows 7 Tray Icons Changer: Customize Windows 7 System Tray Icons

Posted December 28, 2010 – 7:07 pm in: Freeware, Windows 7 Guides
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The Windows 7 system tray (notification area) displays Network, Volume and Action Center icons by default. All three system tray icons are pretty but can’t be customized  without manually replacing ActionCenter.dll, pnidui.dll, and SndVolSSO.dll files.

 Tray Icons Changer for Windows 7

To easily customize and replace the default system tray icons you will need a third-party tool called Windows 7 Tray Icons Changer. With this standalone utility, you can easily replace the default icons with custom ones.

 

How to use this tool:

1. Download and run the tool with admin rights (right-click on the tool and select Run as administrator).

 

2. Select the system tray icon that you want to replace with the custom one and then click Change Selected Icon button to browse to your desired image file. Please note that the custom file should be an icon (.ico file) file only. In other words, you can’t use an image file.

Windows 7 Tray Icons Changer

3. Windows Explorer will be restarted to apply the change.

 

Note: If you are getting “A referral was returned from the server” error while launching tool utility, follow the given below steps:

Windows 7 Tray Icons Changer Error

# Right-click on the tool and select Properties.

 

# Switch to Compatibility tab.

Fix Windows 7 Tray Icon Changer Error

# Enable the option named Run this program as an administrator and click Apply button. Now launch tool to begin customizing system tray icons.

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4 Comments

  1. ShiRaz
    Posted April 2, 2011 at 5:16 pm | Permalink

    it would have been better if we could build our own custom icons

  2. John Michael Depas
    Posted September 26, 2011 at 9:23 am | Permalink

    my system tray icons like VOLUME , NETWORK and NOTIFICATION FLAG GREYED after i execute and change my icons . ive done registry edit to restore my icons and also the restarting of explorer.exe but it doesnt work for me . i’ve run ur application again and tried to restore to default all my icons but a message pops-up (i cant restore my icons again) . please do help me because im getting confused and annoyed in this one. Hoping for ur action on this matter of mine .

  3. Kevin
    Posted October 31, 2011 at 4:29 pm | Permalink

    I’ve got the same problem as John Michael Depas, when I paste custom .dll files of the tray icons they don’t show up either. Does anyone know how to fix this without resetting my whole PC?

  4. XxRhi...xX
    Posted October 17, 2012 at 5:13 am | Permalink

    Okay, this software completely crashed my icons…

    But all you have to do, is go to start then type system restore then follow the steps…it will restore previous settings, restart your pc, and when it boots up your icons are back.

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