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Adding New Icons
How do I add new icons that can be accessed when I click on "change icon"?
Thank you very much to whomever can tell me. Candy |
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Candy wrote:
How do I add new icons that can be accessed when I click on "change icon"? Thank you very much to whomever can tell me. Candy 1. Find those already on your computer... Normally, when you do the above and click "browse", Windows will open the file which contains the current icon. There may be others available in the same file. You can also look in moreicons.dll (106 pretty boring ones), progman.exe (46), shell32.dll (80), pifmgr.dll (38), shdocvw.dll (35) and a whole bunch more files in the Windows folder. Ditto in the Programs folder - most program exe and/or dll files will have several. The best way to explore is via an icon program such as Microangelo. With such program you can also extract/save icons and create icon libraries (sort of like a zip for icons). http://www.microangelo.us/ IconShop is another for extracting and creating libraries. http://users.pandora.be/liontech/Downloads.htm 2. It is easy to find collections of icons on the web which can be downloaded. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=free+icons -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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Thanks. I THINK this will help. I will have to check those programs out
you mentioned. What I meant was, "How can I add icons to an icon file from programs that I add to my computer later, as time goes on? Candy "dadiOH" wrote in message ... Candy wrote: How do I add new icons that can be accessed when I click on "change icon"? Thank you very much to whomever can tell me. Candy 1. Find those already on your computer... Normally, when you do the above and click "browse", Windows will open the file which contains the current icon. There may be others available in the same file. You can also look in moreicons.dll (106 pretty boring ones), progman.exe (46), shell32.dll (80), pifmgr.dll (38), shdocvw.dll (35) and a whole bunch more files in the Windows folder. Ditto in the Programs folder - most program exe and/or dll files will have several. The best way to explore is via an icon program such as Microangelo. With such program you can also extract/save icons and create icon libraries (sort of like a zip for icons). http://www.microangelo.us/ IconShop is another for extracting and creating libraries. http://users.pandora.be/liontech/Downloads.htm 2. It is easy to find collections of icons on the web which can be downloaded. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=free+icons -- dadiOH |
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"Candy" wrote in message
... Thanks. I THINK this will help. I will have to check those programs out you mentioned. What I meant was, "How can I add icons to an icon file from programs that I add to my computer later, as time goes on? For functional purposes, you do not need to put custom icons into a compiled app file. Just create them to icon specifications, name them wiith filetype ICO, keep them in a folder /Icons, and when you browse to that folder in / Properties each icon will display correctly. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Candy wrote:
Thanks. I THINK this will help. I will have to check those programs out you mentioned. What I meant was, "How can I add icons to an icon file from programs that I add to my computer later, as time goes on? By "extracting" the icon with an app similar to the ones I mentioned and stashing them in a folder or an icon library. The advantage to an icon library is that the entire contents is essentially one big file. If you store them as individual icons, each one will use a minimum of 4096 of disc space - probably more (up to 32,767)depending on your system and the size of the drive on which you store them - even though the icon itself is only a few hundred bytes. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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"...Just create them to icon specifications, name them with filetype ICO,
keep them in a folder /Icons, and when you browse to that folder in / Properties each icon will display correctly..." Please forgive me. Chalk it up to my ADHD, I guess. How do you "create them to icon specifications"? I understand about the filetype ICO, but what do you mean by "keep them in a folder /Icons"? Do you mean in a folder named "Icons"? Why do the website specific icons that download when you first save a group in Favorites or download from it sometimes disappear and are replaced by that e icon? Thank you very much. Candy "Don Phillipson" wrote in message ... "Candy" wrote in message ... Thanks. I THINK this will help. I will have to check those programs out you mentioned. What I meant was, "How can I add icons to an icon file from programs that I add to my computer later, as time goes on? For functional purposes, you do not need to put custom icons into a compiled app file. Just create them to icon specifications, name them wiith filetype ICO, keep them in a folder /Icons, and when you browse to that folder in / Properties each icon will display correctly. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Why do the website specific icons that download when you first save a group in Favorites or download from it sometimes disappear and are replaced by that e icon? Those "Favicons" were d/l to a temporary internet folder and are dumped when you clean it out (you should) or it reaches the maximum capacity you set for it. You can keep them by moving them to another home; however, after you do that, the favorite shortcut will change to the "e" unless you point it to the icon's new home. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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I do that, but some of them change back even after I do that. Is there
another thing I should do to prevent this? Candy "dadiOH" wrote in message ... Candy wrote: Why do the website specific icons that download when you first save a group in Favorites or download from it sometimes disappear and are replaced by that e icon? Those "Favicons" were d/l to a temporary internet folder and are dumped when you clean it out (you should) or it reaches the maximum capacity you set for it. You can keep them by moving them to another home; however, after you do that, the favorite shortcut will change to the "e" unless you point it to the icon's new home. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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To help prevent them from changing, you can adjust's Window's ability to
store more of them. I couldn't find the following file online for you to download so I'll post it here. Cut and paste the text between the dashed lines into Notepad (don't include the dashed lines) and save as iconca.reg (note the reg extension). Then right click on the file and select install. ------------------------------------------------ REGEDIT4 ;ShellIconCache ;Original concept by Tom Koch. This version by Andreas Kaestner. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer] "Max Cached Icons"="4096" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer\Advanced\IconCache] "Text"="Icon Cache Size" "Type"="group" "Bitmap"="SHDOC401.DLL,6" "HelpID"="update.hlp#51140" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer\Advanced\IconCache\Small] "RegPath"="Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVe rsion\\Explorer" "Text"="1024 Icons" "Type"="radio" "CheckedValue"="1024" "ValueName"="Max Cached Icons" "DefaultValue"="4096" "HKeyRoot"=dword:80000002 "HelpID"="update.hlp#51140" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer\Advanced\IconCache\Medium] "RegPath"="Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVe rsion\\Explorer" "Text"="2048 Icons" "Type"="radio" "CheckedValue"="2048" "ValueName"="Max Cached Icons" "DefaultValue"="4096" "HKeyRoot"=dword:80000002 "HelpID"="update.hlp#51140" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer\Advanced\IconCache\Large] "RegPath"="Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVe rsion\\Explorer" "Text"="4096 Icons" "Type"="radio" "CheckedValue"="4096" "ValueName"="Max Cached Icons" "DefaultValue"="4096" "HKeyRoot"=dword:80000002 "HelpID"="update.hlp#51140" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer\Advanced\IconCache\Huge] "RegPath"="Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVe rsion\\Explorer" "Text"="8192 Icons" "Type"="radio" "CheckedValue"="8192" "ValueName"="Max Cached Icons" "DefaultValue"="4096" "HKeyRoot"=dword:80000002 "HelpID"="update.hlp#51140" ------------------------------------------------ "Candy" wrote in message ... How do I add new icons that can be accessed when I click on "change icon"? Thank you very much to whomever can tell me. Candy |
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