TSGL: Available substitute icons ? CRAIG

[EDLYNN]

No catastrophia - You did good, and thaanks again.

ED
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig" <crtrav at charter.net>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Available substitute icons ? 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>
>> 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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