• Table of Contents

• Changing Desktop Icons, Drives, Folders, Files, Shortcuts, System
  How to change various icons on your desktop.

• Using More Than 16 Colors, 256 colors, 64K Colors, 16M Colors
  Allow desktop to display icons with 256 or more colors

• Managing an Active Collection
  How to manage icons you commonly use on your system.

• Deriving Your Own Icons
  Create your own icons using Icon Library as your starting point.

• Icons as Bitmaps, Web Pages, ClipArt, Photoshop, GIF, JPG
  Save icons as bitmap images and use them in web pages and other art.

Changing Desktop Icons
Drives  |  Folders  |  Files  |  Shortcuts  |  System

1. Changing the icon for a shortcut is quite straight forward.

   

2. Right click on the shortcut and select the Properties option from the popup menu. A Properties window will appear. Click on the Change Icon button.

   

3. A Change Icon window will appear. Into the File name: field, enter the path of the ICL file containing the icon to be used. The pathname for the icon library used in this example is C:\icolib5_shar\256multi\256multi.icl. Highlight the icon to be used and click on the OK button, or just double click on the icon itself.

   

4. The icon will have changed in the Properties window. Click on the OK button.

   

5. The shortcut icon has been changed while the original text file icon remains the same as before. No other icon is changed by this procedure.

   

6. You can now try changing some of the System Icons on your computer.