Help with Desktop Icons

[NJdangerous1]

I can't seem to get some of my Desktop Icons to resize properly. As you can see in the pic below, some are just like resizing the area of the icon and not the icon it self. These are shown by the little border around the icons. Im not familiar with icon formating any suggestions/help will be appreciated.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello NJdangerous1, welcome to Vista Forums!


Have a look at this tutorial (and the related links), at the link below.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html?ltr=I

Be sure to keep us informed.














Later Ted

 

[Dwarf]

Hi NJdangerous1,

Not all icons are resizeable. It depends on whether or not different sized icons are included with the application.

 

[NJdangerous1]

Thanks Barefoot I tried Rebuilding didnt work.

But Dwarf can't I manually resize the icons then?

My Steam, IE, uTorrent, etc icons did do the same thing when they were the default icons. But when I changed them to HydroPro_Icon Pak icons they resized properly. If I change any of the bordered icons with 1 from the HydroPro pack it does resize correctly with no border, so it has to be some kind of formatting thing I'm thinking. Ive tried using IconCool Editor and IrfanView to resize them but hasnt worked.

 

[Brink]

Hello NJdangerous,

You can use a 30-day trial version of Axialis IconWorkshop to create good Vista icons that will resize properly.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Dwarf]

Hi NJdangerous1,

Download and install Download IconViewer (select the correct version).

Right-click one of the icons that hasn't resized on your desktop and select Open file location. Right-click on the file and select Properties and choose the Icons tab. All available icons (and their sizes) will be listed.

 

[NJdangerous1]

Havent had a chance to mess with Axialis alot, the Iconviewer does show larger icons(up to 128x128 32bit) for some like Ad-Aware, but when i save the 128x128 and put as the icon it just stays same size with stupid border. Thanks for the help though.