changing Icons to custom built .jpg or .gif?

[Joshua Cossette]

I wish to change several icons on my desk top to images
I've created myself. currently those images are .jpg
or .gif and although I know how to create a short cut and
then rightclick and select properties and "change Icon" I
can't figure out how to add new options to the list of
Icon choices. Can anyone help me? Thank you!

 

[Dan Seur]

Within the "change icon" panel is a browse button that lets you navigate
to an icon library anywhere on any HDD on the system.

Icons are .ico files with certain properties. The web has plenty of
info, iconmaking tools, and large libraries of icons freely available.
JPEGs and GIFs won't do, as far as I know. If you enlarge an icon you
will see it's an extremely small low-res image.

 

[Joshua Cossette]

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
Within the "change icon" panel is a browse button that lets you navigate
to an icon library anywhere on any HDD on the system.

Icons are .ico files with certain properties. The web has plenty of
info, iconmaking tools, and large libraries of icons freely available.
JPEGs and GIFs won't do, as far as I know. If you enlarge an icon you
will see it's an extremely small low-res image.



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[Dan Seur]

You're very welcome. When I said "icon library" in that earlier post,
all I meant was a bunch of .ico files in a directory or set of
directories, if it wasn't clear. Have fun.

 

[Rambler]

Use a picture viewer/editor like IrfanView to crop your image to a
square format which will suit the icon. Resize the image to 32x32
pixels, and save it as a bitmap (.BMP). Change the bitmap file
extension to .ICO and you have an icon.