Guest Trish Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 Hi, I often put shortcuts on my deskop and like to easily identify them by using different icons. I used to simply right-mouse-click on the existing icon, go to properties, change icon and select from a range. Often the range of icons doesn't show, but a series of (meaningless) folders instead. In any event, there was not that much to choose from. What is the best way to change an icon, and when I browse for an icon, where should I go to get a good selection? Many thanks.
Guest Malke Posted July 30, 2007 Posted July 30, 2007 Re: Changing an icon on the desktop Trish wrote: > Hi, I often put shortcuts on my deskop and like to easily identify them by > using different icons. I used to simply right-mouse-click on the existing > icon, go to > properties, change icon and select from a range. Often the range of icons > doesn't show, but a series of (meaningless) folders instead. In any event, > there was not that much to choose from. What is the best way to change an > icon, and when I browse for an icon, where should I go to get a good > selection? > Many thanks. You're changing the icons the right way although I'm not sure what you mean by "select from a range". When you click "Browse" you have the opportunity to navigate to wherever you've put your icons. That might be a folder you make in My Documents cleverly called something like "My Icons". ;-) You can download icons from the Internet; just be careful from where you get them. Here are some safe places: http://www.wincustomize.com/ http://iconfactory.com/freeware http://interfacelift.com/icons-win/index.php?sort=date http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/icons.php?cat=pc Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest Gary Brandenburg Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 Re: Changing an icon on the desktop "Trish" <Trish@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EBD66013-CC23-47F5-B12C-B8A77A3FC5B6@microsoft.com... | Hi, I often put shortcuts on my deskop and like to easily identify them by | using different icons. I used to simply right-mouse-click on the existing | icon, go to | properties, change icon and select from a range. Often the range of icons | doesn't show, but a series of (meaningless) folders instead. In any event, | there was not that much to choose from. What is the best way to change an | icon, and when I browse for an icon, where should I go to get a good | selection? | Many thanks. Trish- I'm almost obsessive about customizing my PC,with icons associated with all the programs on my " All Programs" list,as well as in Program Files in My Computer. I simply browse,when in that programs properties(change icon),to that particular program in Program Files & any available icons for it are right there. There's also a freeware program called Icons Extract http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iconsext.html that's good at finding hidden icons elsewhere. Do as Malke suggests & create a new folder in My Docs & "store" them there for browsing to,& you'll see that you can build a pretty sizable cache in no time. Especially if you go to Internet Options/Temporary Internet Files/View Files,& Copy To or Move To(while in Explorer) the location where you keep your icons collection.[Note: You may have to rename them while doing it this way,while in Explorer,as they are mostly titled "favicon" & you may get the prompt that it already exists] I even went as far as assigning my Favicons folder it's own distinguishable icon.(I told you I was almost obsessive) Good luck & I hope this helps in what you're wanting to achieve. ~Gary
Guest Code-Curious Mom Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 Re: Changing an icon on the desktop Check the Windows/system directory for moricons.dll hticons.dll shell32.dll for some basic included with Windows ones. "Trish" <Trish@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EBD66013-CC23-47F5-B12C-B8A77A3FC5B6@microsoft.com... > Hi, I often put shortcuts on my deskop and like to easily identify them by > using different icons. I used to simply right-mouse-click on the > existing > icon, go to > properties, change icon and select from a range. Often the range of > icons > doesn't show, but a series of (meaningless) folders instead. In any > event, > there was not that much to choose from. What is the best way to change > an > icon, and when I browse for an icon, where should I go to get a good > selection? > Many thanks.
Guest Code-Curious Mom Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 Re: Changing an icon on the desktop that's Windows/system32 "Code-Curious Mom" <none@NG.invalid> wrote in message news:eIFppUx0HHA.5160@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Check the Windows/system directory for > moricons.dll > hticons.dll > shell32.dll > for some basic included with Windows ones. > > "Trish" <Trish@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:EBD66013-CC23-47F5-B12C-B8A77A3FC5B6@microsoft.com... >> Hi, I often put shortcuts on my deskop and like to easily identify them >> by >> using different icons. I used to simply right-mouse-click on the >> existing >> icon, go to >> properties, change icon and select from a range. Often the range of >> icons >> doesn't show, but a series of (meaningless) folders instead. In any >> event, >> there was not that much to choose from. What is the best way to change >> an >> icon, and when I browse for an icon, where should I go to get a good >> selection? >> Many thanks. > >
Guest M.I.5¾ Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 Re: Changing an icon on the desktop "Trish" <Trish@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EBD66013-CC23-47F5-B12C-B8A77A3FC5B6@microsoft.com... > Hi, I often put shortcuts on my deskop and like to easily identify them by > using different icons. I used to simply right-mouse-click on the > existing > icon, go to > properties, change icon and select from a range. Often the range of > icons > doesn't show, but a series of (meaningless) folders instead. In any > event, > there was not that much to choose from. What is the best way to change > an > icon, and when I browse for an icon, where should I go to get a good > selection? > Many thanks. Quite a good selection is already on your system. Have a look in: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll There must be a couple of hundred of them.
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