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Extra Vista Folder Icons ??
With XP I have a collection of extra folder icons to organise my stuff.
They include coloured icons as well as lot of different graphical ones. e.g. http://www.iconaholic.com/images/dow...s-previews.jpg I was wondering if anybody has made scalable Vista folder icons yet? Cheers ss. |
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Extra Vista Folder Icons ??
I'm sure many of the 3rd party icon makers are making icons and those are
available via search engines. However, Vista does have a number of new .dll folders in :\Windows System32 that have new icons, and you have to try them one by one or else use one of the icon extractors. I prefer to try them one by one and list them in notepad or an email to myself. I can extract any of them manually and I don't miss them if I check every ..dll, .exe and zip file and program folders on every possible drive and directory and folder list including in and out of Windows. It's not a quesiton of don't have to, it's a question of tapping every source for the most icons and variety. You can sub any icon that comes with Vista, and there are about 2500 or more--or any icon that comes with any downloaded 3rd party program or any MSFT program like Office. And of course the web applying favicon.ico to a url is an endless source for an icon collection. There are all kinds of 3rd party free icon harvesters, but I much prefer to do this manually either drawing from icons within Vista or you can make an icon folder as well by simply creating a folder, then going to urls and adding favicon.ico to the url after a / . Not every site will have them. Sometimes you'll see the favicon at the upper left corner of the window, but it won't drag to the desktop so you do a suspender number or pull it from the top left extreme corner of the window and let it snap back 2-3 times and then you can pull it from that same location to the desktop. Then you must rename the favicon and give it a h ome, i.e. you have to tuck it into that favicons folder (call it anything you like) Icons or whatever so that it will not revert back to a generic small "e" when you delete TIFs or when you reboot. Good luck, CH "Synapse Syndrome" wrote in message ... With XP I have a collection of extra folder icons to organise my stuff. They include coloured icons as well as lot of different graphical ones. e.g. http://www.iconaholic.com/images/dow...s-previews.jpg I was wondering if anybody has made scalable Vista folder icons yet? Cheers ss. |
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Extra Vista Folder Icons ??
"Chad Harris" msftneedstogetoutvistainfo.net wrote in message
... I'm sure many of the 3rd party icon makers are making icons and those are available via search engines. However, Vista does have a number of new .dll folders in :\Windows System32 that have new icons, and you have to try them one by one or else use one of the icon extractors. I prefer to try them one by one and list them in notepad or an email to myself. I can extract any of them manually and I don't miss them if I check every .dll, .exe and zip file and program folders on every possible drive and directory and folder list including in and out of Windows. It's not a quesiton of don't have to, it's a question of tapping every source for the most icons and variety. You can sub any icon that comes with Vista, and there are about 2500 or more--or any icon that comes with any downloaded 3rd party program or any MSFT program like Office. And of course the web applying favicon.ico to a url is an endless source for an icon collection. There are all kinds of 3rd party free icon harvesters, but I much prefer to do this manually either drawing from icons within Vista or you can make an icon folder as well by simply creating a folder, then going to urls and adding favicon.ico to the url after a / . Not every site will have them. Sometimes you'll see the favicon at the upper left corner of the window, but it won't drag to the desktop so you do a suspender number or pull it from the top left extreme corner of the window and let it snap back 2-3 times and then you can pull it from that same location to the desktop. Then you must rename the favicon and give it a h ome, i.e. you have to tuck it into that favicons folder (call it anything you like) Icons or whatever so that it will not revert back to a generic small "e" when you delete TIFs or when you reboot. Cheers Chad I have used an earlier version of Axialis IconWorkshop to browse through ..dll and .exe files in XP. It makes it very easy, and you can easily extract them. http://www.axialis.com/iconworkshop/ But what I am looking for are just folder icons like the ones you see in your Users directory, and coloured folders, that match with the standard folder icons. I doubt that I'll find any of these within the OS files that are fully scalable 256x256 .png icons. Favicons would never have the larger images contained in them either, as they would take too long to download. All I have found is this pack, which costs $349! I suppose they are meant for program developer's use. http://www.fasticon.com/evistafull.html This site might have some soon. http://interfacelift.com/icons-win/ ss. |
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Extra Vista Folder Icons ??
"Synapse Syndrome" wrote in message
... Cheers Chad I have used an earlier version of Axialis IconWorkshop to browse through .dll and .exe files in XP. It makes it very easy, and you can easily extract them. http://www.axialis.com/iconworkshop/ But what I am looking for are just folder icons like the ones you see in your Users directory, and coloured folders, that match with the standard folder icons. I doubt that I'll find any of these within the OS files that are fully scalable 256x256 .png icons. Favicons would never have the larger images contained in them either, as they would take too long to download. All I have found is this pack, which costs $349! I suppose they are meant for program developer's use. http://www.fasticon.com/evistafull.html This site might have some soon. http://interfacelift.com/icons-win/ I asked some people in a Vista IRC channel earlier and somebody showed me this set. These are good, but I can only find a few of them useful. Just having some plain ones in different colours would be useful. http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.id.1026.htm ss. |
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Extra Vista Folder Icons ??
IMO, the new Windows Media Player Icon, with it's Orange and Blue colour
scheme, would be a nice one to have a replacement for. Again, imo, that colour scheme just doesn't work well with the rest of the Vista look. |
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Extra Vista Folder Icons ??
David,
I TOTALLY agree, whoever was responsible for that ABOMINATION, should be fired! or promoted!, because it does follow a basic tenet of advertising- get people to remember it. LOL even if it is UGLY, ya do notice it. P.S. if ya find a suitable,scalable replacement, please post it. Jeff "David Wright" wrote in message ... IMO, the new Windows Media Player Icon, with it's Orange and Blue colour scheme, would be a nice one to have a replacement for. Again, imo, that colour scheme just doesn't work well with the rest of the Vista look. |
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Extra Vista Folder Icons ??
Browse to www.deviantart.com/. and type in "Vista icons" in the search box.
You will find a virtual treasure trove of icons and PNGs. |
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Extra Vista Folder Icons ??
"Fatec" wrote in message
... Browse to www.deviantart.com/. and type in "Vista icons" in the search box. You will find a virtual treasure trove of icons and PNGs. Thanks. I've even got a profile on that site and I never thought to look there. I found a couple of good folder icon packs there. Most of the results are actually Vista icons for XP, and aren't in ..png/256x256 format. But there are a couple of useful folder icon sets. Annoyingly, a lot of people are making folders coloured as virtual folders instead of normal yellow folders. ss. |
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Extra Vista Folder Icons ??
Ok. You can also go to Deviantart.com, and search for PNGS. Then go to the
PNG Factory (Google the exact URL...I forgot!)..they have TONS of high resolution PNGS in 256 format that can be converted to icons. |
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