TSGL: Available substitute icons ? CRAIG

[Craig]

ED,

Oh, you're quite welcome. But I made one supposition that was wrong, at 
least in the case of Firefox. When I said, if you want to change the 
icon associated with all url's at once...blah blah...well, that doesn't 
work to change what the urls on the desktop actually look like.

But I did find out how to do it and this one works! I had to download an 
"Icon Pack" of my choosing from  http://tinyurl.com/y8zzx7 . Then I had 
to follow the directions at http://tinyurl.com/w5645

My desktop with it's 120 or so icons looks better, and hopefully my 
sharing this will help repair any consternation my erroneous info may 
have caused.

Trust yet verify!

Craig



EDLYNN wrote:
> 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>
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> 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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