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		M95D 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser Moricons.dll had icons for various DOS programs like word perfect. The icons used in desktop are/were in progman.exe, shell32.dll and control.exe (IIRC, it was a long time ago).

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sillywalk 13 days ago | [–]

Raymond Chen has more on this:

What were the MS-DOS programs that Windows used the progman.exe stock icons for?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250506-00/?p=11...

What were the intended uses of those icons in moricons.dll?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250505-00/?p=11...

rzzzt 13 days ago | [–]

shell32.dll is unfortunately modernized on modern versions of Windows, with very few exceptions :( the Novell tree is still there.

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