Icon tweaker for Windows Seven
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From: John Corliss on 30 Jul 2010 10:50 T0M wrote: > Windows Seven lackes a simple way to personalize icons files. > Any good freeware recommandation I can use to change a lot of default > files icons to personaliza my OS like I had on my XP ? > > Thank you in advance, You might look at Greenfish Icon Editor Pro: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/gficoneditor.html It's described there as being able to "create Vista compatible and 32 bit icons up to 256x256 with the help of a variety of drawing and selection tools". I use this program. It's the best freeware icon editor going IMO, and I've tried them all. Oh yeah, this *might* be the home page for the program: http://greenfish.xtreemhost.com/index.php but I really don't know for sure. Their home page used to be elsewhere, but the old link is dead. -- John Corliss BS206. Because of all the Googlespam, I block all posts sent through Google Groups. I also block as many posts from anonymous remailers (for example, usenet4all.se, x-privat.org, dizum.com, tioat.net, frell.theremailer.net) as possible due to forgeries posted through them. No ad, CD, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares OR warez for me, please.
From: T0M on 30 Jul 2010 13:44 John Corliss a �crit: >>You might look at Greenfish Icon Editor Pro: > >>I use this program. It's the best freeware icon editor going IMO, and >>I've tried them all. Thank you very much John for this proposal but i think it's not the kind of program I'm looking for. I'm not looking for a icon editor but a "simple" icon tweaker which can easly help me to change under Windows Seven, for exemple, the default PDF icon file, the .Doc file, etc. by others one. With XP, there is the option under the menu where you'll can choose the default software to open a specific file but now, with Seven there is no more this option. Hope I'm a little more clear about what I'm looking for. Thanks in advance, T0M
From: RoseW on 30 Jul 2010 17:52 On 7/30/2010 1:44 PM, T0M wrote: > John Corliss a �crit: > >>> You might look at Greenfish Icon Editor Pro: >> >>> I use this program. It's the best freeware icon editor going IMO, and >>> I've tried them all. > > Thank you very much John for this proposal but i think it's not the kind > of program I'm looking for. > I'm not looking for a icon editor but a "simple" icon tweaker which can > easly help me to change under Windows Seven, for exemple, the default > PDF icon file, the .Doc file, etc. by others one. > With XP, there is the option under the menu where you'll can choose the > default software to open a specific file but now, with Seven there is no > more this option. > > Hope I'm a little more clear about what I'm looking for. > > Thanks in advance, > > T0M When you right click on the existing shortcut and use the submenu "PROPERTIES" there is a 'change icon' button at the bottom The default file that comes up in the browse bar is the Windows Shell 32 folder. If you have special icons that you acquired they must be stored in a particular folder so you would BROWSE to that folder. There were a couple of folders in Xp Windows System folder that held other icons but I haven't found similar folders in Win7. I think any icon of a .png type can be used. (At least that is the case on the desktop 'docks' I put a png icon from the Rocketdock into the Objectdock desktop bar) Rose
From: T0M on 31 Jul 2010 05:48 RoseW a �crit: >>When you right click on the existing shortcut and use the submenu >>"PROPERTIES" there is a 'change icon' button at the bottom You're right Rose but it's only working with shortcut. For exemple, if you right click on a PDF file (a "true one" not a shorcut to it), you can't change the default icon and if the software you use to open this kind of file hasn't an option to do that, you'll stick with sometimes ugly icon :P With windows XP, there was a dedicated menu where you'll be able to choose what kind of program to open a specific file. In this menu, it was also possible to change icon. This menu has been deleted in Windows Seven. Anyway there is a lot of freewares for XP that may help one to do that. I personnaly used Icontweaker which may tweack both system and file icon under XP, don't know anyone for Windows Seven, which is I'm looking for that. Thanks for your help Rose. T0M
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