Getting modern system icons with LoadIcon

Question

I\'m using LoadIcon for loading system icons such as the \"Attention\" sign. This works fine, but this gives me the icon with the old (I think) Windows 7 look.

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Answer 1

I saw that MessageBoxW uses the LoadIconWithScaleDown function for loading icons instead of LoadImage or LoadIcon. With standard icon IDs (from 0x7f00 (IDI_APPLICATION..IDI_SHIELD) this function actually loads images from imageres.dll (while LoadImage loads them from user32.dll).