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How to have file/folder icons use a relative path?
On my portable hard drive I set icons for almost every organized folder. All these icons are located in an Icons folder located on the root directory of the same hard drive.
When I change the drive ...
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How to change the icon of html files?
Windows (at least XP and Vista, I haven't tried 7) refuses to honor my setting of the icon to show for html files. It insist in showing the paper sheet with the IE logo on it.
On XP I changed the ...
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Icons appear as blocks (windows 8)
Some windows 8 icons just got corrupted (i have no idea how) and now appear as blocks.
Many icons work fine... many don't
Any idea how to fix this?
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Why are Icon Overlays (from 3rdParty-Apps) not showing up in the Win8 Explorer?
Win8 Pro 64-bit.
These wonderful icon overlays that give you useful information in the Windows Explorer are not showing up. It's the most annoying with Dropbox (I already read ...
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What is the file path of the default Windows notification area icons?
I'm designing an icon. I want to copy the style of the default notification area icons in Windows: Volume, Network, Action Center, Battery, etc.
What is the file path of the default Windows ...
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How to change the default icon for .url in Windows?
How do I change the filetype icon for .url?
I have used Default Programs Editor to change it, but it does not work. This initially made me think that the program doesn't work on Windows 8, but it ...
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Windows 7 missing icons and taskbar
We are running Windows 7 on a notebook. After logging in with one account (it has Admin rights), empty desktop appears, with no icons and no taskbar.
I can change desktop properties (e.g. Themes), I ...
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Remove the rectangle around desktop icon when selected
Is there a way to remove the rectangle around desktop icons, whithin the aero theme?
Take a look at this icon. You can see the box around the icon when it's highlighted:
Now, take a look at the ...
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Change the default icon allignment of windows desktop
When a file is created or moved or anything inside the desktop dir, the default alignment is from left-top to down:
What I want to do is to assign a different default alignment, for example from ...
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How can I identify a mystery tray icon in Windows 7?
A new icon has appeared in my tray in Windows 7 recently - a black square with a white A in it:
It doesn't have any tooltip or right-click context menu so I haven't been able to identify which ...
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Windows 7 Enterprise Icons on running applications getting mixed up
I am running Win 7 Enterprise 64 bit, and I have an annoying problem.
As a developer, I typically have several applications open at the same so I can jump back and forth between design documents, web ...
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what icon sizes are usually used for software deployment on a Windows OS? [closed]
I have an application that is currently utilizing a generic icon. I want to customize it. A shortcut to the application is placed on desktop by default. There is also an icon in the tray. I am ...
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How is an icon stored inside an executable?
I am not able to find any information on this. There are tools that exist to extract icons from .exe files, but my question is how are they stored in the first place?
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How do I embed multiple sizes in an .ico file?
I have seen .ico icons that have different images for multiple sizes, eg. 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 128x128, 256x256. On Windows, how can I create an icon file that supports multiple sizes in this way, ...
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Incoming connections and false network error?
Creating an incoming connection (inbound VPN) in Windows 7 Home Premium causes a red x to appear over the network indicator icon, falsely indicating an error although the LAN / WAN connections ...
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How to force Windows to save desktop icon positions?
Is there a way to force Windows to save desktop icon positions?
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How to remove (not hide) the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon
I want to remove the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon from the system tray, do I need to change the registry? Also how can I remove some devices in the "Safely Remove Hardware" list?
I do not want to ...
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How to change icons in LibreOffice toolbars?
I personally find (you're free to disagree) LibreOffice's toolbar icons ugly and not quite intuitive, so I decided to replace them... if I only knew how... Any advice? (I'm especially interested in ...
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Why is my hg workbench & Adobe Reader toolbar icon a blank white page?
On my work's PC (windows 7 32bit) all Adobe Reader and hg Workbench icons on the toolbar (and general shortcuts for hg workbench) are just white pages (with the top left corner folded over).
If you ...
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Change icon positions from the command line?
Is it possible to use the Windows command line to get or change the positions of icons the screen?
For example, I can drag and move a file's icon on my desktop. How would I retrieve that position ...
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Windows 7 desktop icons randomly
After reboots, my Windows 7 desktop icons will randomly change size.
I am referring to the icons with a gray border around them. A search has not yielded me a working resolution. How do I fix this?
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Windows 7 Taskbar Never Combine, Show Labels Only, No Icon
In Windows 7, in the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties, there is an option to Never Combine which shows both an icon and accompanying text. I have seen people who want Never Combine but want no ...
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Accessing external HDD on different Windows computers with the same path
I have a external HDD and have a folder in it called icons\ which stores all the custom icons (yes, I'm nostalgic!) for the different folders on my drive. But when I open my hard-drive on a different ...
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Is there a way to easily set the icon a folder uses?
I want to have certain folders show a picture I made my own instead of having to use the properties and specifying an *.ico file. Is there a way to use a *.jpg or *.png or *.gif or something like that ...
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How to overlay an icon like the tick sync in Dropbox?
How exactly do you overlay an icon? Like a shortcut icon on Windows?
For example, Dropbox overlayed the icons on the files and folders with a tick sign, indicating that they are in sync with the ...
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Show different directory icons in windows explorer depending on ownership
In the Windows file explorer - Is there a way to give a certain icon to directories which I own?
In Windows xp? In Windows 7?
Henrik
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Custom trash icons does not refresh (windows 7)
I changed Desktop Recycle Bin default icons to custom ones. One for empty and one for full. But the problem is that the icons dont switch by themselves. I have to manually refresh desktop for icons to ...
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What does the folder Icon with “2-man” mean/represent?
I have a couple of folders under %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs which looks like:
In the image, we can see that one of the folders has a different icon. Initially I was thinking it ...
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Speeding up tray icon hide
"Hide inactive icons" is checked. But the arrow to slide the hidden icons in/out of view moves very slowly ( >2 seconds to reveal, about the same to hide them again ). Is there any way to tweak the ...
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Where to find the Mona Lisa icon from Windows 3.1?
In the old Windows 3.1 days I had an icon of an expressive and very good pixel-art reproduction of DaVinci's Mona Lisa portrait. I'd like to have this icon again, but I couldn't find it anywhere. ...
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1answer
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Taskbar icons appearing jagged in Windows 7
Title explains it all. I'm setting up a new laptop and noticed some of the icons look like crap and are blurry/jagged. Laptop is at native resolution, and the taskbar icons are the only ones that ...
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Suggest a free tool for generating high quality 16x16 and 32x32 letter icons (A … Z) [closed]
Using other symbols would be nice, but I am primarily interested in capital letters A through Z. It is VERY important that these look good at 16x16 and 32x32. So far I tried IcoFx, but the text that ...
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How do I arrange my desktop icons in rigidly alphabetical order?
Currently, my desktop icons are divided into three groups:
Upper left icons in the following order:
Libraries
Computer
Recycle Bin
Network Magic
Continuing to read downwards and to the right: ...
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Created files/downloaded files go to the top left of the desktop instead of the bottom right
I have an issue with my desktop icons on Windows 7. It seems that downloaded files or any files made by programs are sometimes placed on the top left of the desktop, shifting all of my existing ...
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How can I change file icons in Windows 7?
How can I change file icons in Windows 7?
I don't want to use any tools for this purpose - I've tried some registry hacks but they didn't work.
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A small red cross flashing next to the battery icon
I replaced my laptop (HP 6735s, Windows Vista) battery about 3 months ago due to its poor performance (it was running out after about 20 minutes).
The new battery (some cheap one off eBay) that I ...
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Windows 7 icons blank and don't function on Desktop, Taskbar and Start menu
First I tried to download Starcraft 2 on Windows 7 and after the installer ran there was no way to launch it. I ran the installer again and then all my icons on the computer, on desktop, taskbar and ...
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How to remove leftover icons from notification area?
The notification area, when I customize it, still shows three programs and their icons. But they can not be seen if I customize to show them. They are not possible to remove from the list.
The ...
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get rid of blue background behind the desktop icons
Today morning there was some problem with my pc and i forced Restart.
After that i can see some Blue background behinde every icon.
I have seen Texts below desktop's Icons became blue in Windows ...
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How to change Windows 7 Aero Desktop Icon Text Color
The default icons are white on blue. Since I am older with vision issues I find a pale green or yellow with black text easiest to read and see. We were developed on a yellow-green planet!
I would ...
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Windows Desktop Icon Filename Positioning
Is there a way to make filenames appear to the right or left of the file and folder icons as you can in OSX on the desktop?
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How can I delete my alternate drive icon on the Ubuntu desktop?
I'm using a system with a Windows drive and an Ubuntu drive (both physical, not virtual). The Ubuntu Places menu lists a "320 GB file system" which is the Windows disk.
The same drive also appears ...
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“Marking” a windows 7 icon
I read a ton of small PDF files for work, I would like to "mark" these to show that they've been read?
I keep them organized in specific folders (like over 1000). I was imagine a PERL script or ...
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set custom icons for everyone
I am trying to associate custom icons to files on a fileshare for everyone (Windows). It works great for me and I can see the custom icons but if someone else opens the network folder he can not see ...
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Network-related icons suddenly removed
On a fresh Windows 7 installation, I created some shortcuts icons to network shares on the Desktop.
Without any warning, these icons are sometimes and randomly deleted from Desktop. I totally don't ...
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How can I remove the lock icon from a folder in Windows 7?
I have shared a folder on Windows 7. Its icon has a padlock decorator. I want to remove the lock symbol; how can I do so?
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How can I combine several individual .ico files into a single file?
I was able to convert PNG files into ICO files (thanks to Turn pngs to one ICO file ), but now I would like to create an icon "bundle" similar to system32.dll, which contains several individual icons. ...
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What does the number on the visual studio solution icon represent?
Just out of curiosity - what does the number represent? At first I thought it was simply the version/year, because I saw some 10's and some 8's (I have vs 2010 and 2008) but, then why do I have some ...
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Identify what's painting the empty space in my Windows notification area?
I have an "icon" in my Windows (XP, if it matters) notification area (by the clock) which renders no image, but rather an empty square space (no borders -- nothing rendered at all in the space where ...
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Is there an open source to edit icon? [closed]
I'm looking for a similar tool to Paint.Net but be able to edit icon. Have you ever heard of one of those? Please share.
