Registered: May 2002
Location: Central Jersey
Posts: 45

Hello all,

Can someone do me a bit of a favour and lemme know how to convert jpeg pics into icon files so that I can use them for my folders? I have seriously forgotten how and now have XP. Help?

Thanks.

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Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Broadband Britain
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save them as .bmp and point to them on the effects tab in the display menu (right click desktop - properties).
I am refering to win98SE though, hopefully its the same with xp. There are also a few apps out there (try here that manage icons and let you change them.

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Registered: May 2002
Location: Central Jersey
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Ah, I figured out how to change the icons, but alas, the site I work on can only allow 50k size pics and I don't trust those geocities type places. Alas, I can not upload my desktop

Unless someone would like to help me out

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send it here and i'll upload it to some webspace (but the one that doesnt keep going down )

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Originally posted by Vern
send it here and i'll upload it to some webspace (but the one that doesnt keep going down )

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Thanks very much, I appreciate the offer. It's on its way to you as we exchange zeroes and ones

Cheers,

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I think this looks quite and it seems XP is taking over the world *sniff*

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Registered: May 2002
Location: Central Jersey
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Thanks so much for posting that up on your site for me. Seems that anytime I had used Geocities or the like, anything I posted was gone an hour later

But yeah, I appreciate the comment. I actually learned how to do that effect on the pic of the cast while I was doing that background. The standard background with only the lettering was lacking in my opinion.

If anyone wants it, or thinks it's actually good enough to bother to put it on their desktop, I'll gladly send it to you.

Also, I have plans to do a version with Daniel in it.

Let me know what you all think of this one tho.

Bye.

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Well ryderrch, there are two things I must say, first of all, Im beggining to think you have an unhealthy obsession with Mira sor...(however you spell her name )
Secondly, that warp visualisation is either similar to the stargate... or something to do with your unhealthy obsession with Mira S...

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Rhydderch,

How did you get such large icons? Did you use a programme like microangelo?

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I'm running Windows 98 SE, so all one has to do to make icons is take a square bitmap and rename it with an ".ico" instead of ".bmp". I used crappy ol' PhotoDraw to shrink and crop icons to 64x64, then paste them into a Paint window and save them by typing ".ico" after the picture's name. I save them at 64x64, but I have the icon size in Windows set to 32x32, giving them a high-resolution look.

You can always alter the size of icons (default is 32x32) by right-clicking on the Desktop and in the Properties box, go to the Appearance screen and change the Icon size there. Big icons tend to look funky, especially the ones than come canned with Windows.

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Halloween's coming. Anyone else goth-ing out their desktop look? Again, 'tis me and my obsession with women in movies...

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Registered: Oct 2002
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I got win 2000 and I use webshots to rotate my desktop stargate pics( a lot of them ) so it changes aaaallll the time

as for the icons there are only 4

my doc.(called Abydos), my comp.(called Chulak), my recy., my network.(called Cimmeria) with stargate icons

I dont even need the recycle bin but I dont know how to get rid of it

my pc is very organised I know where everything is

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Registered: Oct 2001
Location: London.
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haha, just changed mine today, its a bit crap, and yeah, I download eppies and watch em so blah..



oh yeah, and the computer is in a state of degredation as you can see from the black icons, theyve been like that for months now, I cant be arsed to sort it out

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Registered: Dec 2001
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That aircraft looks sweet Pres. Severe linkage!

I've also just re-installed XP on Monday, so I haven't actually got round to sweetifying it.

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Registered: Jul 2002
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How do you post these things! i wanna post my pic. too, but i don't know how to do any of these things!

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