desktop icons

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Johnny

I want to create my own unique icon graphic. I am using a custom made
inventory program. The desktop shortcut icon is assigned by me by choosing
an icon from "Windows/system32/shell32.dll". I do this by clicking on the
"change icon" tab in the properties dialog box. It seems like I should be
able to create a picture in Paint and use it somehow for my icon graphic.
Any ideas on how to do this?
 
Johnny wrote:
> I want to create my own unique icon graphic. I am using a custom made
> inventory program. The desktop shortcut icon is assigned by me by choosing
> an icon from "Windows/system32/shell32.dll". I do this by clicking on the
> "change icon" tab in the properties dialog box. It seems like I should be
> able to create a picture in Paint and use it somehow for my icon graphic.
> Any ideas on how to do this?

Give your artwork an .ico extension and point to that file. It needs to
have specific dimensions though, 64x64, perhaps.

--
Joe =o)
 
Agrees with Elmo... but IIRC icons should be 32 x 32 pixels...

Johnny <Johnny@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I want to create my own unique icon graphic. I am using a custom made
> inventory program. The desktop shortcut icon is assigned by me by
> choosing an icon from "Windows/system32/shell32.dll". I do this by
> clicking on the "change icon" tab in the properties dialog box. It seems
> like I should be able to create a picture in Paint and use it somehow for
> my icon graphic. Any ideas on how to do this?
 
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