On this picture, courtesy of Home windows Newest, we see new icons from a Solar Valley preview construct on the left versus manufacturing icons on the best. [credit: Windows Latest ]
Again in January, we reported on Solar Valley—a coming “sweeping visible rejuvenation” of Home windows 10’s consumer interface. This week, Home windows Newest leaked new element concerning the upcoming makeover: There is a new set of icons in C:WindowsSystem32Shell32.dll
changing basic Home windows icons that date again to the Home windows 95 period.
The modifications are surprisingly delicate. Many of the new icons are extraordinarily much like the almost 30-year previous variations they’re changing. Aged symbols resembling floppy disks and floppy disk drives persist within the new icon set—the visible model is up to date on these venerable references, however that is about it.
The floppy-derived icons in Home windows now (proper) appear to be 1990s-era {hardware}—the Solar Valley refresh replacements (left) look extra like late 1970s/early 1980s tools. [credit: Jim Salter ]
Paradoxically, within the case of the floppy disk associated icons, the tools seems to be older. The drives within the older icons took styling cues from then-current 1990s-era tools, however the substitute icons look extra like tools from the late 1970s or very early 1980s.
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