Windows 7 icons - What do they mean?

I've looked everywhere for a graphical list with descriptions of the icons in Windows 7. In particular, Windows Explorer folder icons. Has anyone come across such a list?

I agree with all the enquirers above.
1) All icon-like things will never be intuitive or obvious (meaning-wise) to all people, so icons WILL ALWAYS need explaining if used for a wide audience. Anyone who deals with "the public" directly on a regular basis knows this.
2) Most people (or "The Public") can find several interpretations for the same sentence - (what better example than the person above - Mike - expresses what he wants to know about icons; it took several exchanges for M/soft to twig what he meant).
This is what it is to be human - ie we find other meanings! - therefore M/soft or Windows should endeavour to explain any iconography they use - somewhere. It would usually be called 'a key' - as on maps; the symbols on maps are thought to be intuitive,
but cartographers/designers always explain them as it's practical and sensible to do so.
3) Microsoft - please give us an icon 'key'! Especially as to this/these specifics in Explorer(?):
4) Specific icons in File Explorer - ie in list of folders/files etc under my name as user:
4a) I seem to have at least 2 'My documents' folders. 1 has the folder icon (yellow open book with sheet inside), another has the same folder icon but with an arrow pointing from bott left to top right. I have 'access denied' on this latter one.
What? How? Why?
4b) Similarly I have 3 'My pictures' files; all have the same icon (Yellow folder with picture coming out of it) and I can access 2 but not the 3rd. So whereas it seemed the arrow meant I couldn't access a folder, not so according to these 3 identical
'My pictures' icons
4c) Other file icons also have this arrow: Cookies, Recent, Nethood
Explain please!

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