Windows 11 Icon Pack

A complete icon pack containing icons from Windows 11 and other Microsoft products, organised into categorised .ico files.

Usage

Access the icons in three ways:

• Download the repository and use the individual .ico files directly from Icons/.
• Run dotnet build to produce a managed .NET 8 assembly with icons embedded as manifest resources.
• Run the native build target to produce a resource-only DLL suitable for shell-style icon browsing.

Building

Managed assembly

dotnet build -c Release

Produces bin/Release/net8.0/WindowsIcons.dll with all icons as embedded resources for .NET consumption.

Native icon DLL

dotnet msbuild -t:BuildNativeIconDll -p:Configuration=Release -p:NativeDllMachine=x64

Produces bin/Release/native/x64/WindowsIcons.dll — a native, resource-only DLL browsable through standard Windows shell APIs (PickIconDlg, ExtractIconEx, etc.). No rc.exe or link.exe required; the build uses the tools/WindowsIcons.NativeBuild helper with AsmResolver.

Supported machine targets: x64, x86, arm64.

Icon categories

Category	Count
applications	181
devices	84
emblems	66
files	111
folders	39
objects	40

Sources

Built-in Windows

• Windows Apps
• imageres.dll
• shell32.dll
• ddores.dll
• Other system32 locations

Third-party

• Superfolders — start, taskview, widgets, search, and volume icons.
• Sysinternals — autoruns, packetviewer, processmonitor, and windowsobject icons.
• PowerToys — PowerToys icon.