Toolbar icons don't show on Hiren's WinPE

[Mattiwatti]

• [x] I looked at https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ to see if my question has already been answered.
• [x] I performed a search in the issue tracker for similar issues using keywords relevant to my problem, such as the error message I got from the log.

Issue description

This is just a copy of an item that's already listed in [INTERNAL] List of 3.10 enhancements and fixes, with the following description:

• [ ] Are we losing our toolbar buttons as some people are reporting in Hiren's WinPE x64? → Well the issue is that the buttons are there but the icons aren't displayed, most likely because the ImageList or CreateIconFromResourceEx function calls are broken on Hiren.

I decided to track down the cause of this and it is indeed CreateIconFromResourceEx failing. Why is it failing? Because IconCodecService.dll is missing. More precisely, it is only missing from SysWOW64, not System32. This matters because the version of Rufus included on Hiren's WinPE is 32 bit. This could be fixed by either

• Including IconCodecService.dll in SysWOW64, or
• Replacing the current Rufus with an x64 version.

Either way, this is a bug in Hiren's WinPE and not Rufus. You could try contacting the developers to inform them, but Hiren has not been updated since 2018 so I don't know how responsive they'll be.

The reason I made this issue is so you (@pbatard) and others are aware of why the icons aren't working, and that it's not due to a bug in Rufus. Might save some people time debugging.

[Mattiwatti]

Closing this as it doesn't make sense to have an open issue for something that's not actually a bug in Rufus.

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