If you are like me you have some documents and files stored on the desktop for fast access. Some users may prefer to pin those files to the taskbar or start menu instead, or use a program and file launcher. When it comes to icons on the desktop you have only a few options to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Icons are used in numerous applications both online and offline. Some of the most notable ones are browser favicons that display in the address bar and bookmarks, and program icons that visualize programs and files in the operating system. Icons are often everything that is needed to identify a program or a file type. Windows [...]

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Windows users who want to change the icon size in the operating system need to dive deep into the Control Panel to find the preferences where the size of the icons can be changed. The Window Color and Appearance menu controls the default icon size and font in Windows. The icon size can be changed [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

The order of desktop icons can change in Windows if the screen resolution changes. This happens both in one-user but also in multi-user environments. Nothing’s more frustrating than having to move the desktop icons to their designated locations on the desktop whenever a screen resolution change caused the icons to be moved around by the [...]

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Desktop icons, or icons in general, come in handy in several situations but mainly to replace existing icons on the computer desktop or in applications. It is for instance relatively easy to replace an existing icon in the Windows operating system with another although it depends on the data type. System icons can for example [...]

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I remember, way back, when I first started using Linux either was either in full-on command line only Linux or I was using Fvwm95. Executing commands in command line meant I had to know the name of the command. And when I was in the Fvwm95 desktop, if there wasn’t a menu entry for an [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

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 [...]

Categories: Search Engines, The Web

Image icons in Windows look all the same and the only way to distinguish or sort them is by using folders or file names. Xentient Thumbnails introduces a third possibility by providing an automatic windows thumbnail image generator for all images on the system. The system works by assigning thumbnail icons to every image in [...]

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Are you bored of the system icons that Windows ships with? If you like to change the default Windows theme to a custom one you also might like to change the icons that ship with Windows with different icon sets that look more professional or match the theme that you have selected. Icon Tweaker can [...]

Categories: Software, Windows