Help with ugly icons

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Hey, I spent like 12 years on my desktop background, which I think is pretty clever, as you can see in the link, but as you can also see in the link, when I went to make the desktop icons large, so they would fit better, they become very ugly. As you can see, with most of these icons, not only is there some obnoxious box around them, but also the "shortcut" symbol, being in the far southwest of the icon, totally looks like ****.

Is there any way to navigate into some subsidary of the desktop appearance branch of the aptly named Personalize cellar of my computers rotting depths where I will find an "Ugly" box to uncheck, or anything like that? Basically, I want to keep the icons in large mode (as in the 4 that were actually made large because of this option) and my theme in classic, but I would like to make the icons look a lot better, as opposed to having these huge stupid boxes around them and preferably also rid them of these shortcut symbols. Anything to make these look the slightest bit better would be great, so any suggestions? Thanks.
 
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hello, that is a very clever desktop.... see if this helps with the arrow problem.....good luck
 
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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    acer aspire 6930
    Memory
    3GB
    Graphics card(s)
    onboard
    Sound Card
    onboard
    Hard Drives
    320GB
I think desktop icons are a pita period. They last on my desktop about long enough to drag a newly installed program's shortcut into a subfolder. I don't care if AutoArrange is off, on or broken!! I'm done with it!!
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion m9515y
    CPU
    Phenom X4 9850
    Memory
    8 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Some Radeon Cheapie with 512 MB Ram
    Monitor(s) Displays
    CRT
    Screen Resolution
    1280x1024
    Hard Drives
    750 GB SATA 3G 2 SIIG Superspeed docks w/WD Caviar Black Sata II or III
The dotted box around the icons only appears when the icons are scaled larger than their original format.

ie an .ico that is 32x32 natively and is scaled to 64x64, 128x128 > etc will show the box.

An .ico that is natively 512x512 will scale lower without the box.

As far as I'm aware, the dotted box is there to stay. Your only options would be to either use a resource editor to extract/modify the .ico image, or use custom icons that are at least 256x256
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self Built
    CPU
    i7 3770K HT ON 4.7GHz
    Motherboard
    P8Z68 Deluxe Gen 3
    Memory
    8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X 2133mhz
    Graphics card(s)
    2x Gigabyte GTX 670 OC WindForce SLI
    Sound Card
    X-FI Forte + ATH-AD900
    Monitor(s) Displays
    x2 Dell U2410 / 58" Samsung / "40 Sony
    Screen Resolution
    1920*1200 / 1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    2x Intel 520 240GB * Crucial M4 128GB * 2x Samsung F3 1TB (RAID 0) * 2x WD Caviar Blacks 2TB (RAID 0)
    PSU
    Corsair AX1200W
    Case
    Lian Li PC-V1020A
    Cooling
    NH-D14: 3x140mm Gelid Wing 14: Sunbeam Rheobus Extreme
    Mouse
    Razer Imperator + Thermaltake Theron
    Keyboard
    Topre Realforce // Ducky Shine Cherry MX Black
    Other Info
    Laptop Specs: Clevo Sager P170HM // 17.3 Matte 1920x1200 // i7 2720QM // 8GB 1333mhz // Dedicated GTX 485M // 240GB Intel 520 + 750GB + Blu-Ray // Samsung Story 2TB USB 3.0
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