Dorin, thank you for your reply

Well, this is a good point "will violate the copyright" ???!!!

But if I am using a microsoft product & my application developed using microsoft product why it will be consederd as violating the copyright??




>1.Yes, icons, AVIs and bitmaps are stored as resources in DLLs (shell32.dll is one).
>2.I don't know if you will violate the copyright if you extract these bitmaps/icons and use these in applications (but make sense, you buy Windows, not windows icons)
>3.You can extract/modify resources, Resource Hacker is a freeware that can do this.
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>Or you can search the Internet and download icon/bitmap collections for use with your application.
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>Dorin
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>>Hi All,
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>>Does Microsoft stores there icons & buttons in a .DLL file and packaged with windows xp, and can we use these icons in our application.
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>>If yes, I would like to know the way please.
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>>Thanks for the help