Changing program short cut icon

[John J]

Hi,
I saved a URL as a program short cut.
It uses the IE default icon.
How can change the IE icon to say a jpeg logo?

Thanks

[David Candy]

You can't. You can only use icons or bitmaps as icons. (An icon is a =
collection of bitmaps of various sizes with transparancy bitmap as =
well). Unlike earlier Windows versions XP handles bitmaps as icons =
poorly (the transparent colour turns out black) - but pictures work as =
well as ever.

Use Paint to convert. Reduce the size so as to not waste memory.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/webdiary/index.html
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David Candy
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"John J" > wrote in message =
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> Hi,
> I saved a URL as a program short cut.=20
> It uses the IE default icon.
> How can change the IE icon to say a jpeg logo?
>=20
> Thanks

[Russ]

I change mine all the time. I think he just wanted to
know where to find other icons, and XP, as well as other
programs have many. I didn't get into converting or
making your own icons, as I didn't see that in the post.
>-----Original Message-----
>You can't. You can only use icons or bitmaps as icons.
(An icon is a collection of bitmaps of various sizes with
transparancy bitmap as well). Unlike earlier Windows
versions XP handles bitmaps as icons poorly (the
transparent colour turns out black) - but pictures work
as well as ever.
>
>Use Paint to convert. Reduce the size so as to not waste
memory.
>--
>http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/webdiary/index.html
>---------------------------------------------------------
------
>David Candy
>http://www.mvps.org/serenitymacros
>---------------------------------------------------------
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>"John J" > wrote in message
...
>> Hi,
>> I saved a URL as a program short cut.
>> It uses the IE default icon.
>> How can change the IE icon to say a jpeg logo?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>.
>

[Russ]

I'm so sorry, I guess the heat is getting to me (40 C.).
I reread the post and realized that thats what they were
wanting to know. You are correct, you must convert\save
as a .bmp or .ico
>-----Original Message-----
>You can't. You can only use icons or bitmaps as icons.
(An icon is a collection of bitmaps of various sizes with
transparancy bitmap as well). Unlike earlier Windows
versions XP handles bitmaps as icons poorly (the
transparent colour turns out black) - but pictures work
as well as ever.
>
>Use Paint to convert. Reduce the size so as to not waste
memory.
>--
>http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/webdiary/index.html
>---------------------------------------------------------
------
>David Candy
>http://www.mvps.org/serenitymacros
>---------------------------------------------------------
------
>"John J" > wrote in message
...
>> Hi,
>> I saved a URL as a program short cut.
>> It uses the IE default icon.
>> How can change the IE icon to say a jpeg logo?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>.
>

[Maureen Goldman]

>"John J" > wrote:

>Hi,
>I saved a URL as a program short cut.
>It uses the IE default icon.
>How can change the IE icon to say a jpeg logo?

If you mean the icons actually associated with jpeg files, they're in
shimgvw.dll