06-16-2007
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Re: can not change desktop icons
I do keep all Icons that I need to use separately such as favicons in a
single My Icons folder in My Documents.
I am still not sure how your scheme works, sounds like it might be better
then mine if it will work with my 1280x1024 display.
"Chad Harris" <vistaneedsmuchowork.net> wrote in message
news:u9ytf$7rHHA.5032@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> JW--
>
> That's good info. My understanding is you empirically tried and then
> scaled the icons lower than default. It's ridiculouls that you have to do
> that though, so I can live with doing my 'icon thing' where I can collect
> favicons and intrinsic icons from Vista or XP (about 2000 including
> downloaded programs and zip files for them) with folders where you don't
> have to play games with scaling them.
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> I do appreciate the info though--it's resourceful of you to have figured
> that out. I don't know what about Vista influenced the shell team or
> whomever to play games with the shortcuts so that you can't do icon
> exchanges with them by default.
>
> CH
>
> "JW" <JW@nospam.nspam> wrote in message
> news:BD767D55-E271-4E27-B44F-4149FF3F774A@microsoft.com...
>>I saw it posted about a month ago without an explanation and found that
>>with IE7 on XP where you could specify the ICON heights you had to set the
>>height to 48 or less.
>> On Vista I have the smallest Icon selected but also had to lower the DPI
>> from the value I had it set to insure that pixel height was small enough
>> on my 1280x1024 display.
>>
>> "Chad Harris" <vistaneedsmuchowork.net> wrote in message
>> news:uFrHND3rHHA.4932@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> JW--
>>>
>>> I found this interesting because I often change icons using the over a
>>> thousand intrinsic icons in Vista and adding favicon.ico to urls, using
>>> program folders or zip files, or programs like Office. However in Vista
>>> I could not make shortcuts exchange icons--only folders. I have
>>> resorted to putting shortcuts in folders with the same name but your
>>> method while interesting, doesn't work for me at all. I tried using the
>>> smallest icon setting. Where did you get the 50 pixal guidelines?
>>>
>>> CH
>>>
>>> "JW" <JW@nospam.nspam> wrote in message
>>> news:95993CD7-1EC9-40BD-9CB3-969D41A7B8C6@microsoft.com...
>>>> Set up to use smaller Icons for some reason to change the Icons the
>>>> Icons need to be less then 50 pixels high.
>>>>
>>>> "Jerry Grabill" <jgrabill@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:O5VoaBsrHHA.3484@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>>> Shortcuts I have created for new programs and web sites.
>>>>>
>>>>> "PaulB" <PaulB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:9E11593A-6333-42AC-8507-447561857BA3@microsoft.com...
>>>>>> Which ones do you want to change?
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Paul
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Jerry Grabill" wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can not change desktop shortcut icons.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I need help.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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