Martin wrote an article in May about IconLook, a website where you can search for icons. I recently found another one, simply called Iconfinder, and as you would expect it enables you to find icons as well. During my testing I found that Iconfinder has more large icons in the 128×128 range. It also seems [...]

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Desktop Renamer is a lightweight software that can rename or reset the names of the Windows Recycle Bin, My Computer, My Documents and My Network Places. The software provides a graphical user interface for renaming those four system icons in Windows.
There is however a direct way to rename those icons - and many more [...]

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Switching themes in Windows can have a few side effects that only become apparent after working with the system for some time. Yesterday’s switch to the Royale theme for Windows XP has the negative side effect that the text of the icons on the computer’s desktop were not transparent but showing in black which did [...]

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Changing the resolution on the system normally misplaces the icons that have been placed on the desktop which will be noticed when changing the resolution back to the original one. Say you use a 1280×1024 resolution normally and have to reduce the resolution to 1024×768 to work with an application properly. Every icon on the [...]

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