I have a question from one of our senior group that I can find an answer to.

What he wants to do is to have an item from Clipart available so that he can
change the Icon to his choice and not use any of the Icon that are available
in the folder on the desktop that comes up when you click on change icon.

Is there a simple way to do this please?

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Regards
Joe
Tasmania

Save it as a bitmap file and rename it from filename.bmp to filename.ico. You should reduce the size as well.

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"Joe" <jogor@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message news:uSw0eR0wFHA.3812@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>I have a question from one of our senior group that I can find an answer to.
>
> What he wants to do is to have an item from Clipart available so that he can
> change the Icon to his choice and not use any of the Icon that are available
> in the folder on the desktop that comes up when you click on change icon.
>
> Is there a simple way to do this please?
>
> --
>
> Regards
> Joe
> Tasmania
>
>

Many thanks David, I tried that and it works great.

So easy when you have expert guidance eh?

He will be happy.

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Tasmania
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Save it as a bitmap file and rename it from filename.bmp to filename.ico.
You should reduce the size as well.

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"Joe" <jogor@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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>I have a question from one of our senior group that I can find an answer
>to.
>
> What he wants to do is to have an item from Clipart available so that he
> can
> change the Icon to his choice and not use any of the Icon that are
> available
> in the folder on the desktop that comes up when you click on change icon.
>
> Is there a simple way to do this please?
>
> --
>
> Regards
> Joe
> Tasmania
>
>

"Joe" <jogor@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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>I have a question from one of our senior group that I can find an answer
>to.
>
> What he wants to do is to have an item from Clipart available so that he
> can change the Icon to his choice and not use any of the Icon that are
> available in the folder on the desktop that comes up when you click on
> change icon.
>
> Is there a simple way to do this please?
>
> --
>
> Regards
> Joe
> Tasmania

Joe

You will need to convert the clipart image file to the .ICO (Windows Icon)
file format. The image file will also need to be resized to something like
34x34 (small icon) or 48x48 (large icon) pixels. There is a free imaging
program called IrfanView that accomplishes these tasks easily.

IrfanView
http://www.irfanview.us/

After the image files are converted and resized, create a new folder called
Custom Icons and store all of the converted files there. When you change an
icon, simply navigate to this folder and select the icon you wish to use.


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Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

Thank you also for your advice Ronnie.

For interest I found that I had to rename to .bmp then edit the size and
save, then rename to .ico as David explained, it all worked fine that way
but not just resizing and then renaming from .gif to .ico.

Appreciated.

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Joe
Tasmania


"Ronnie Vernon MVP" <ronv@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> "Joe" <jogor@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> news:uSw0eR0wFHA.3812@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>I have a question from one of our senior group that I can find an answer
>>to.
>>
>> What he wants to do is to have an item from Clipart available so that he
>> can change the Icon to his choice and not use any of the Icon that are
>> available in the folder on the desktop that comes up when you click on
>> change icon.
>>
>> Is there a simple way to do this please?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards
>> Joe
>> Tasmania
>
> Joe
>
> You will need to convert the clipart image file to the .ICO (Windows Icon)
> file format. The image file will also need to be resized to something like
> 34x34 (small icon) or 48x48 (large icon) pixels. There is a free imaging
> program called IrfanView that accomplishes these tasks easily.
>
> IrfanView
> http://www.irfanview.us/
>
> After the image files are converted and resized, create a new folder
> called Custom Icons and store all of the converted files there. When you
> change an icon, simply navigate to this folder and select the icon you
> wish to use.
>
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User