desktop icons

[grammaj]

Hello. I would like to put my own logo on the icons on my desktop. I can go
in and find lots of icons but would prefer my own, ie: bank logo, ebay logo,
etc. Is this possible? Thanks

 

[PaulB]

Right click on the icon and select properties. Click Change icon and go to
where your icon is stored.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Possible, but not simple. If you rightclicked the desk , and used "New" and
"Text File", you would get a new text document icon on the desk. To change
that icon you would use Start menu/.../RUN to open 'regedt32.exe'
at:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\DefaultIcon
you would put in the path to the a *.ico or .bmp file, or a dll containing
one, and it's number in the dll.
Apps are programmed to do this during setup. System files all have entries
something like this, if a bit more complex.
There are various tweaking apps available for managing icons. Google for
one. 'vista tweak icons'
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[Stuart Sabatini]

You can make your own icons using the Snipping tool and MS paint program.
This was posted on this newsgroup some time ago. Briefly: Use the snipping
tool to capure any logo or what ever you want from the computer screen
(Something about the finnished size that you want works best). The Snipping
tool allowes you to save the image as a .jpg file. Open the file with MS
Paint and then resave the file as type 24-bit Bitmap. This changes the file
format. Now resave a third time but mannually change the extension to .ico
(I would think you could just change the file name from an .bmp extension to
..ico extension also). Now go to the desktop shortcut , right click, select
properties, change icon. Point to the .ico file you just created. Click on
OK , OK to change the icon selection.

Stuart

 

[Stephan]

Hi
I don't know whether this is the right forum...but I downloaded Outlook 7
and my desktop picture has changed into a false-colour image. Any idea how
to deal with this? Also, Outlook Web Access is now fuzzy. I'm running XP.
Thanks for any help!