Where are native Windows 8 icons located?

I'm talking about simple white icons that appears on start screen. I want to use them on shortcuts. So, I need a file or .dll that contains metro icons.

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They are located in %windir%\System32\imageres.dll

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While this isn't the "official" icons, there is the alternative of creating them through Syncfusion's Metro Studio v2 (which is currently free):

Syncfusion Metro Studio is a collection of over 1700 Metro-style icon templates that can be easily customized to create thousands of unique Metro icons.

There are tons of icons already made, and you can create your own:

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There are several files:

• C:\Windows\System32\DDORes.dll

• C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll

• C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll

• C:\Windows\System32\dmdskres.dll

• C:\Windows\System32\comres.dll

• C:\Windows\System32\mmsres.dll

• C:\Windows\System32\setupapi.dll

• C:\Windows\explorer.exe

• C:\Windows\System32\pifmgr.dll -> This ones dates back to Win95

Listed are the ones I've found that come included in Windows 8 / Windows 8.1, does anyone know of others?

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I just found that here: XAML Icons

Helped me a lot and is much cheaper than Metro Studio.

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Try using the Run command and the following folder -

C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\

When the folder opens it will be blank, but do a search using *.ico and the favicon files should appear.

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