If you're comfortable with a resource editor, change icon #2061 in DDORes.DLL in your System32 folder. You might be able to fake it without a DLL hack. 7 keeps that information in "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Device Metadata\dmrccache\". I've zero experience with that area, toyed with it a bit and Windows kept reverting back to what it had. Maybe somebody has an idea for that option.
The best AND easiest way is the resource hack in DDores.dll, like mentioned in previous post. The how to can be easily derived from the thread in my sig. EDIT : if running win7 x64, then you need to do the hack also in c:\windows\syswow64\ddores.dll
That icon isn't assigned anywhere else, as far as I know. Could be wrong though. #2068 in ddores.dll is a high res laptop icon. You could asssign that one to 2061 too. But do keep the original ddores.dll as a backup, just in case.
That worked perfectly. It does what I was looking at earlier, adds an entry in "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Device Metadata\dmrccache\" for the machine. (I had zero idea how to do that by hand.) Just supply your own icon. Nice find.
Copy/paste that into an Explorer window address bar, minus the quotes. It'll take you right to it. (%LocalAppData% is a variable which changes depending on the user name, etc etc.. that was much easier than trying to explain where it is.)
What about this dir? C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceMetadataStore\en-US Same file is in here on my installation
if it's a .mui file, you don't need to change that. It holds only language properties related to DDores.dll
nah it's not... its actually the devicemetadata-ms (cab) file containing the data which is inserted into "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Device Metadata\dmrccache\" DDores.dll??? i'm not using Resource Hacker or such... i've used the proper method