Windows Icons: List with locations & images

Locations of common windows icons

Associated
File Type Built-in? Location
Extensions
Audio
MP3 mp3 yes %windir%\system32\wmploc.dll 60
Free Lossless Audio Codec flac no Included in FLAC
Raw Wave File wav yes %windir%\system32\wmploc.dll 62
Ogg Vorbis off no Included in Xiph Codecs
Midi mid yes %windir%\system32\imageres.dll 18
Monkey’s Audio ape no Included in Monkey’s Audio
Apple Lossless alac ale no Included in Itunes / Quicktime

Video
Matroska mkv mka no Download from DeviantArt
Windows Recorded TV wtv yes %windir%\system32\sberes.dll 0
Audio-Video Interleave avi yes %windir%\system32\wmploc.dll 59
Motion Picture Experts Group mpg mpeg yes %windir%\system32\wmploc.dll 61
Flash Video flv no Included in Adobe Flash Player
Windows Media Video wmv yes %windir%\system32\wmploc.dll 64
Apple Movie mov no Included in Itunes / Quicktime
Image
Joint Picture Experts Group jpg jpeg yes %windir%\system32\imageres.dll 68
Portable Network Graphic png yes %windir%\system32\imageres.dll 79
Bitmap bmp yes %windir%\system32\imageres.dll 66
Graphics Interchange Format gif yes %windir%\system32\imageres.dll 67
Tagged Image File Format tif tiff yes %windir%\system32\imageres.dll 160
Photoshop Image psd no Included in Adobe Photoshop
Paintshop Pro Image psp pspimage no Included in Corel Paintshop Pro
Scalable Vector Graphics svg no Unknown

Web
HyperText Markup Language html htm yes %windir%\system32\ieframe.dll 10
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor php yes Included in DreamWeaver
Extensible Markup Language xml yes Included in DreamWeaver
Cascading Style Sheets css yes Included in DreamWeaver
Java Archive jar no Included in Java
JavaScript js jscript yes %windir%\system32\wscript.exe 4
VB Script vbs yes %windir%\system32\wscript.exe 3
Really Simple Syndication rss yes %windir%\system32\ieframe.dll 66

Documents
Plain Text txt yes %windir%\system32\imageres.dll 98
Microsoft Word doc docx no Included in Microsoft Office
Microsoft Excel xls xlsx no Included in Microsoft Office
Microsoft Powerpoint ppt pptx no Included in Microsoft Office
Microsoft Publisher pub pubx no Included in Microsoft Office
Adobe Portable Document Format pdf no Included in Microsoft Office
 Compression
Rar Archive rar no Included in WinRAR
Zip Archive zip no Included in WinZIP
7Zip Archive 7z no Included in 7Zip

Other
HTML Help hlp yes %windir%\hh.exe 0
Executable exe yes %windir%\system32\imageres.dll 12
Initialisation / Configuration File ini yes %windir%\system32\imageres.dll 65
Setup Information File inf yes %windir%\system32\imageres.dll 65
Dynamic Link Library dll yes %windir%\system32\imageres.dll 63
Home / House yes %windir%\system32\ieframe.dll 0
16bit DOS Command Script cmd bat yes %windir%\system32\imageres.dll 64
Registry Fragment reg yes %windir%\system32\regedit.exe 2
True Type Font ttf yes %windir%\system32\imageres.dll 150
Microsoft Installer msi yes %windir%\system32\imageres.dll 163

Reference list of Windows Icons contained in dll and exe icon libraries

The numbers below each icon refer to the icon number of the file, and the number in brackets indicates how many variants of the icon there are
(there could be up to a theoretical maximum of 20, with different colour depths and sizes.  All the icon screenshots shown below are of 32×32
icons in their highest available colour-depth.
%windir%\system32\compstui.dll (Common Property Sheet User Interface)
%windir%\system32\ddores.dll (Device Category Information and Resources)
%windir%\system32\ieframe.dll (Internet Explorer)
%windir%\system32\imageres.dll (Windows Image Resource)
%windir%\system32\mmcndmgr.dll (Microsoft Management Console Node Manager)
%windir%\system32\moricons.dll (Windows NT Setup Icon Resources)
%windir%\system32\pnidui.dll (Network System Icons)
%windir%\system32\netshell.dll (Network Connections Shell)
%windir%\system32\shell32.dll (Windows Shell Common)
%windir%\system32\wmploc.dll (Windows Media Player Resources)
%windir%\system32\pifmgr.dll (Windows NT PIF Manager Icon Resource Library)
%windir%\system32\wpdshext.dll (Portable Devices Shell Extension)

%windir%\system32\comres.dll (COM+ Resources)

%windir%\system32\dmdskres.dll (Disk Management Support Snap-In)

%windir%\system32\dsuiext.dll (Directory Service Common UI)

%windir%\system32\mstsc.exe (Remote Desktop Connection Client)

%windir%\system32\mstscax.dll (Remote Desktop Services ActiveX Client)

%windir%\system32\inetcplc.dll (Internet Control Panel)

%windir%\system32\shdocvw.dll (Shell Doc Object and Control Library)

%windir%\system32\setupapi.dll (Windows Setup API)

%windir%\system32\urlmon.dll (OLE32 Extension for Win32)

%windir%\system32\wiashext.dll (Imaging Devices Shell Folder UI)

%windir%\system32\mmres.dll (General Audio Resources)