Fun with win xp personality icons

Although xp is about to enter the age of aging, its value is something we can't ignore. Its personality operation is also highly praised by users. It makes the user so habitual, when it leaves. Bring a surprise to the user, let the user personalize the icon of the system, and experience it together.

Raiders & middot; change the shortcut icon

Right-click the shortcut icon & mdash; & mdash; & gt; & ldquo; Properties & rdquo; & mdash; & mdash; & gt; & ldquo; Change Icon & rdquo ;, then in the next "current icon" column will list some of the icons that come with the program, you want to change to other icons can click "Browse", find the location of the icon you want to replace, select it, “ OK & rdquo;

Raiders II · Change File Type Icons

There are fixed icons for various format files in the general system, you can replace them with your favorite icons.

Open “My Computer”, select “Tools”——>“Folder Options”——>“File Type” , the system will list all registered file types, select a type, click on the following "Advanced" (depending on the version of WINDOWS, some systems please select “ edit & rdquo;), then click & ldquo ; change the icon & rdquo; change it.

Raiders three & middot; change the folder icon

If a directory is important to you or is very special, you could consider this folder for a distinctive icon.

If you are using Windows XP, it is very simple, right click on the folder, select <;properties”——>“custom”——> “Change icon” can do it.

The usual approach in other systems are to be replaced in your directory with Notepad to create a Desktop.ini, write the following lines:

[.ShellClassInfo] < Br>

InfoTip=

IconFile=

IconIndex=

InfoTip can write folder prompts later; IconFile is your icon file, generally using .ico The grid file can also be used as an icon file such as .exe, .dll, etc., and write absolute or relative paths; IconIndex is which icon to choose, if you specify more than one icon in the exe or dll, then Need to choose, if you want to use the first target, then IconIndex=0, without the definition of the line, the system default is to use the fourth icon, which is IconIndex=3, which is why the icon can not be displayed in many cases. The reason, because such files usually have only one icon inside.

Raiders four · change system fixed icons

The so-called system fixed icons are icons like "My Computer", "My Network Places". If you change such icons, it is a bit cumbersome to use the relevant software and you need to modify the registry.

Open the “Start” menu and enter “regedit” in the "Run” entry to open the Registry Editor. The entries for the special folders for these systems are set under the "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" key under the "CLSID" key. The primary keys for some common items are:

My Computer {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

Recycle Bin {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

Network Neighborhood {208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}

Double-click the item you want to modify The key name, there is a primary key of "DefaultIcon", click this primary key, there is a "default" item on the right, double-click it and then specify the icon path, such as "%SystemRoot%\\Explorer.exe, 0”, 0 refers to the first icon of Explorer.exe; under the recycle bin there will be three columns, "Default", "Empty", "Ellty", where "Empty" is the icon in the empty state. “Full" is the state when there are unremoved items. Other system fixed icons can also be modified with the corresponding primary keys.

The xp system can always bring different surprises to users. The four strategies mentioned above are to teach you how to change various icons in the system. People who like personality and like innovation can take their favorite pictures. Set it to your system icon, don't miss it.