WINDOWS 95 FOLDER ICON PNG UPDATE
The visual changes are expected to appear in the Windows 10 21H2 update that should arrive in October. That era of Windows, along with these old icons, has been well and truly over for more than a decade now.Īll of this work to improve the consistency of Windows is part of Microsoft’s design overhaul to Windows 10, codenamed Sun Valley. Hopefully this also means Windows will never ask you for a floppy disk drive when you dig into Device Manager to update a driver.
Microsoft has often modernized other parts of the OS only for an older app to throw you into a dialog box with Windows 95-era icons from shell32.dll.
It’s also a big reason why Windows icons have been so inconsistent throughout the years. This DLL is a key part of the Windows Shell, which surfaces icons in a variety of dialog boxes throughout the operating system. Windows Latest has spotted new icons for the hibernation mode, networking, memory, floppy drives, and much more as part of the shell32.dll file in preview versions of Windows 10. Microsoft is now planning to refresh the Windows 95-era icons you still sometimes come across in Windows 10. We saw a number of new system icons back in March, with new File Explorer, folder, Recycle Bin, disk drive icons, and more. The software giant has been slowly improving the icons it uses in Windows 10, as part of a “sweeping visual rejuvenation” planned for later this year.
Microsoft is finally preparing to refresh its Windows 95-era icons.