Creating your own icons
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Creating your own icons
It's shockingly easy to create your own icons in Windows XP. Let's do it: Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, and then click Paint. On the Image menu, click Attributes. Type 32 for both the Width and Height of the document, and make sure that Pixels is selected under Units. Click OK to create a new 32x32-pixel document: the size of an icon.
Now add type, color, or do whatever you'd like to your image. I like to shrink photos (headshots work best) to 32x32 and simply paste them into my Paint document. When you're finished, open the File menu and click Save As. Use the dialog box to choose where you want to save your file, then give it a name followed by ".ico" (without the quotes), and click Save. (The extension ".ico" tells Windows that it's an icon file.) You just created an icon! Now you can change any shortcut or folder to your own icon—just browse to it on your hard drive.
Now add type, color, or do whatever you'd like to your image. I like to shrink photos (headshots work best) to 32x32 and simply paste them into my Paint document. When you're finished, open the File menu and click Save As. Use the dialog box to choose where you want to save your file, then give it a name followed by ".ico" (without the quotes), and click Save. (The extension ".ico" tells Windows that it's an icon file.) You just created an icon! Now you can change any shortcut or folder to your own icon—just browse to it on your hard drive.
George- Computer Savy
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Registered : 2009-05-01
Re: Creating your own icons
Nice work George!
Alex- Admin
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Number of posts : 137
Registered : 2008-12-10
Re: Creating your own icons
Nice, I havent tried this one before
D.K.- Know-It-All
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Registered : 2009-06-03
Re: Creating your own icons
Handy i am assuming that this applies for vista as well?
Sam- Computer Savy
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Registered : 2008-12-11
Re: Creating your own icons
well it said for XP but ill look for vista now
George- Computer Savy
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Registered : 2009-05-01
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