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Allows setting icons for standard Windows context menu items like "Copy" and "Paste"

ContextIcons

Allows setting icons for standard Windows context menu items like "Copy" and "Paste." Designed for Windows 8 (or greater) x64.

Inception

This was originally written as an answer on Super User, earning a hearty bounty of 100 points from the very generous Sk8erPeter.

To use

Put BMP files in the C:\shellicon directory with the names found in IconInjector.cpp. This works best if the images are saved with MS Paint.

Install the built DLL with regsvr32 ContextIcons.dll. To remove, do regsvr32 /u ContextIcons.dll.