TSGL: Available substitute icons ? CRAIG

[EDLYNN]

Craig -

You're right again. Where do you latch onto all thiss info?

As soon as  I saw your
"%System32%"\..., it was deja vu all over again:) That was what I had 
forgotten. And those other two "tinyurls" should be fun tomorrow.

Thanks a heap.

ED
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig" <crtrav at charter.net>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Available substitute icons ?


> Hi ED,
>
> When you're at a website you want to bookmark in Firefox, hitting the F6
> key will highlight the address bar. When you want to physically move
> that url somewhere, I have found that it only works if you 'grab' the
> icon at the start of the address in the address bar. Why the drag symbol
> won't shake off for you is certainly not right. I guess we both will get
> an answer from someone on this list.
>
> %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll is where you're directed when you want
> to change folder icons, but it is
> certainly hard to get into without a free 3d party program. Here is a
> list of freebies that do that, but now that I've tried a few, (which I
> now will uninstall), I'd recommend the one called "Icons from File":
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6htbv
>
> It's fun to see how many icons are locked inside dll's, exe's, etc.,
> and be able to extract them for use on any file or folder individually
> or system wide.
>
> I also use something called Imagicon, (available thru the external
> mirror at http://tinyurl.com/yxhjwf). That converts .bmp or .jpg's to
> .ico  With all the cool astronomy pictures out there...
>
> If you, e.g., want to change the icon associated with all url's at once,
> it would be done by opening My Computer, clicking on Tools, then Folder
> Options, then File Types. Go down to HTML File, highlight it, hit the
> Advanced button, then the Change button, & browse to wherever you saved
> the icon you found or created.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Craig
>
>
> EDLYNN wrote:
>> Wow, when you solve one problem, its like openning a can of worms, That 
>> Bookmarks to desktop problem solution is playing havoc with my memory.
>>
>> I've got a mouse that turns its "drag" into a red circle with a slkash, 
>> and will not deposit its payload anywhere. Also, it will drag a bookmark 
>> to the exposed area of the desktop; will supposedly drop its drag there, 
>> but the drag is nowhere to be found. And, when the curser re-enters the 
>> Firefox screen, the shortcut drag symbol is still attached and won't 
>> shake off. I have to reboot to get rid of it.
>>
>> Now, after finally getting the shortsut to the desktop using Deskcut, it 
>> has a 'bad' icon - one of those geeneric ones. Right 
>> click>properties>change icon only has two more of the same. Ah, where was 
>> that XPPro program with the enlarged selection of icons to use. I forgot! 
>> Can anyone rattle my
>>  a bit??
>>
>> What a way to start the New Year!
>>
>> Thanks.  ED
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