Questions about using and changing icons on your computer.
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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 refresh Windows XP taskbar's shortcuts icons
Often, I have the Windows XP taskbar's shortcuts icons that don't refresh.
I could strike the F5 key repeated times, the whole desktop redraws fine, but not the taskbar... I have tried hiding and ...
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Can you customize individual icons for folders on the bookmarks bar in Firefox 4?
I have a number of folders on my bookmarks bar in firefox. I'd like to be able to change the icons for a few them to match the category they represent. Is this possible? If so, how?
My suspicion ...
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Batch convert SVG images to desired size PNG or ICO
I have bunch of SVG icons that I'd like to use for my application to be developed in VB.Net 2010, and since it has no support to handle SVG icons, I need to convert those icons into either PNG or ICO, ...
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All icons are Internet Explorer
My partner was doing something on our laptop, and now all our icons look the same (the Internet Explorer icon). When you open something up (eg Windows Media Player), it goes straight to Internet ...
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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 create an icon on my Macintosh desktop that takes me to a web page?
How can I create an icon on my Macintosh desktop that takes me to a web page?
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Dock displays low-resolution icons
Recently, I've noticed that the dock has been starting to display low-resolution icons in place of the former high-resolution icons for common apps like Stickies, Word, iTunes and Preview. Looking at ...
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Customize the icons of folder on the dock
How can I customize the icons of the folders that are in the dock in Snow Leopard?
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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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Create new extension association and icon in SnowLeopard
I was searching for the best way to add a new file extension type (.xyz) and associate an icon to all files of that kind in SnowLeopard.
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How to remove a “ghost” file icon from the Windows Vista Home Premium desktop
I have a file with a .VOB extension, allegedly of the size .99GB, on my desktop, but I can't get rid of it or do anything with it. It's just stuck there. Is there a painless way to make it go away ...
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How can I make gVim show a correct taskbar icon in Windows 7?
I'm using gvim 7.3, and for some reason the taskbar icon shown is just the default Win32 "program" icon. I run the EXE itself.
Any idea how can I make gVim show an actual icon? I don't want to create ...
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Is there hotkey for Show Desktop Icons function in Windows?
On my desktop there are a sea of icons and I realy like ability to hide them.
I can do that if do right click on desktop and find arrange icons -> Show Desktop Icons
I am also addicted to many types ...
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Tortoise CVS icons not visible in Win 7 x64
I'm running Tortoise CVS 1.10.10 (with CVS NT 2.5.03) on Win 7 x64, and my folder overlay icons won't appear.
I don't remember when this happened, however I've a colleague running the same setup ...
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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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Changing running application's icon in taskbar (not pinned icons)
I'm using an IDE with multiple windows that cluttered up my taskbar. All the icons and labels are exactly the same (totally unhelpful). I used 7 Taskbar Tweaker ...
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Something just “tweaked” the quality of my desktop icons in XP
Help! I was just now using Tweak UI to change some simple settings, like the mouse wheel, some contents in the start menu, etc. I am not aware of having changed any icon settings/thumbnail quality ...
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Hide an application's dock icon [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Show/Hide Application Icon in Dock
Is there any way to keep an application from displaying an icon in the dock on Mac OS X?
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On Windows 7, how do I fix my cmd.exe icon and remove cruft from the jumplist
When installing drivers for my Gigabyte motherboard, I installed a "Games" link which ran from a batch file. This was pinned to the taskbar by default.
As a result, it changed the icon for cmd.exe to ...
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How to change the icon for programs in Ubuntu's Applications menu?
I downloaded the latest Eclipse but it doesn't provide an installer (it runs off the unzipped file).
I added a shortcut in the Applications menu to it but the icon is the Ubuntu default icon. How can ...
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Vertical alignment for desktop icons in Ubuntu
Is there a way to enable vertical alignment of icons (so that icons span to horizontal lines) on desktop in Ubuntu? Similar behavior can be found in Windows desktop. Please note, that horizontal ...
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How to change radius of rounded rectangle in Photoshop
At this point, I'm thinking of just using CSS 3, esp. since I'm a programmer, but I'd like to do this with Photoshop because I think it's nicer since I'm working with images anyway, among other ...
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Battery icon missing from task bar
I used to have an icon on the Windows Vista taskbar showing the battery amount remaining (laptop). It has mysteriously vanished.
How can I get it back?
I followed the Windows FAQ (see How can I hide ...
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Adding icon covers for opera 11
I recently installed opera 11. I chose my web pages stored in my system to open up with opera but now no icon image comes with it. I mean the icon image is default as in when the system doesn't know ...
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Windows word *.doc icon
I recently installed office after clean install. then my genius brother decided to make notepad the default open with with *.doc files. when I reassigned it to open with Word 2007, i got that horrible ...
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Hide system tray icons on OS X
How can we hide the system tray icons, on the top menu, within OS X?
Those are not mine, but they're not too far off:
Something like Windows 7 has, to selective hide icons into a little window, ...
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Picasa-like icon manager/organizer for OS X
I'm looking for a program (preferably free) that will allow me to manage, organize, tag, etc. my collection of icons (in ICNS format). Something similar to what Picasa and iPhoto do for normal ...
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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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windows 7: set hidden files / operating system files visibility for specific folders
Apart from my desktop folder view, I want to see hidden files and protected system files in every other folder on my computer - is there any way to remove thumbs.db and desktop.ini in particular from ...
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Unable to run Microsoft Office 2010 install file
This problem began when I noticed that the icons in the Windows 7 task bar for MS Word and Outlook were generic. I rebuilt the icon cache. Still not the right icons, but not the generic "document" ...
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windows 7 desktop icons: new icon placement
When moving/saving/etc a new file on the desktop, the icon appears second (just after "Computer"). I find it annoying, since I want my "special" icons to be first (such as the recycle bin, "Network", ...
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How can I make a multiple image ICO on a Mac?
Looking to create a multiple image ISO, in order to create various favicon sizes. Can this be achieved on a Mac? I have photoshop, if that helps.
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HTML document no icon?
All my HTML documents on my PC do not show an icon as shown on the image below:
Firefox is set as my default browser. How can I configure an icon for them?
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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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Desktop icons sort by name (sort of) in Windows 7
I am having trouble understanding the Sort by> Name option in the desktop context menu. When I click on this, my icons are sorting vertically, mostly alphabetically.
Upper left corner is Recycle ...
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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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How to change the icons to default to xls format?
I have installed both Microsoft office 2007 & Open office 3.2 on my windows 2003 server.
The icons when I check shows up in the open office format even though it opens up using Microsoft office ...
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How do I stop the network icon in system tray from blinking on Windows XP
I've been using XP since forever and had that network icon always in the tray, but for some reason it's really bothering me now. Maybe because I'm using Windows 7 on my other two machines where the ...
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Why can I sometimes not drag icons to a supposedly empty spot on my Mac OS X desktop?
I'm using align to grid. There's an icon. There's an empty space. I drag from icon to empty space. It bounces back to its original spot as though there were an icon in the empty space. But there's ...
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Why do my desktop icons resize themselves repeatedly?
I used ln -s (symbolic link) to link a folder to my Desktop on Mac OS X 10.6 to get Dropbox to sync it. I'm not sure if that's related to the symptom or not, but I did notice that shortly thereafter, ...
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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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is there software or a reg back to add a specific item in the context menu for specific executables?
is there software or a reg hack to add a specific item in the context menu for specific executables or icons of executables?
e.g. right clicking a notepad icon would have an option to open a.ext in ...
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Weird notification icon on Adium icon
What's the meaning of this icon that appears over the adium icon?
It looks like corners of a black square (or four triangles) spinning around a circle.
What's it trying to say?
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Finder Sidebar Icons - How do I duplicate?
I've noticed that some system directories, when dragged to the Finder's sidebar, utilize special small-scale icons not visible in any other place. Even when looking at one of these folders in a Finder ...
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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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Scaleable icons in Windows 7
I am big fan of having big icons. Some of them scale, but some does't. Why? How to repair this? What replacement should I search for?
