Where to find the Mona Lisa icon from Windows 3.1?
In the old Windows 3.1 days I had an icon of an expressive and very good pixel-art reproduction of DaVinci's Mona Lisa portrait. I'd like to have this icon again, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Which .DLL file was it located in? The icon looked like this:
I checked into moricons.dll
and some other files from the Windows 3.11 distribution, but still couldn't find it.
Solution 1:
It looks like the icon is in progman.exe
, the Program Manager executable file. In Windows XP, you can still find the icon in %SystemRoot%\system32\progman.exe
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After rediscovering this, I think I remember that when you manually created a shortcut in Program Manager, the icons embedded in progman.exe were provided as default choices, or you could click a Browse button to open another .ico or .dll file like moricons.dll. But it's been so long ago, I don't have a copy to play with to confirm, and haven't been able to find information about it online.
Solution 2:
Although I don't remember which .DLL this image is from, in the hopes of solving your problem I've taken your image and converted it with Adobe Photoshop (and one other proprietary command-line tool called "PNG2ICO") to a .ico file for you. You can download it from here:
Mona Lisa icon file (2,238 bytes)
http://www.lumbercartel.ca/images/interesting/monalisa.ico
Thanks for that nice trip down memory lane!