Replace the icon in the system

The computer shop message changed the outside should be the inside of the circle or the appearance of the good can not hide the inside of the rustic use of more friends will find that many desktop themes contain content outside the Windows theme For example, a lot of very beautiful sets of icons, but no matter how you switch the theme, you don't see these icons appear in the system (except for a few that can be defined in the .theme file). Actually this is because of the theme support of Windows. The system does not support the use of icon themes 1. What is the format of PNG, ICO, ICL, IP? how to use? (Portable Network Graphics)---"Portable Network Image File Format" is a professional format of Fireworks produced by Macromedia. This format is used for network graphics and supports background transparency. It uses compression technology to allow users to The advantage of decompressing is that it does not distort the image. The disadvantage is that it does not support animation. The file size of the same image is BMP format. The maximum PNG is the second. JPE G is the smallest. According to the advantage of png file format, we generally use it in DOCK. Zoom icon Icon file format used by Windows This file format is widely used in dll and exe files in windows system. For ico files, since he is a special format for windows icons, we will definitely use it when replacing system icons. A simple application is to change the icon of the application shortcut. At this time, you must use the icon in ico format. Only the system with Windows XP or higher supports the icon with Alpha transparent channel. These icons are used on Windows XP and below. Illegal ICon Library (icon library) short for one use The 16-bit Windows DLL library files made by the editing software (such as Microangelo) are only used for the packaging of the icons with different suffixes. In addition to the icons, there is no advantage in that it can compress a large number of icons into one file for easy use and communication. Unpacking can directly use the icon inside. Windows XP supports this icon library format by default. Icl file is not common in daily applications. Generally, it is used in program development. Icl file can be opened by software such as iconworkshop. The first and most common way to publish the two is the icon file + .iptheme icon theme definition file form This form of published icon theme is generally in a separate directory icon may be a bunch of .ico files may also Is the .icl (discussed above) icon library file with multiple icons and one of the most important .iptheme files. I have to make a noun explanation here: .iptheme is an IP-specific icon theme definition file like the second The .theme theme file is also text in the chapter. The format can be opened with any text editor. The [Software Info] section is the description of the IP software. The [Package Info] below it is the definition of the icon content. For example: My Computer=%ThemeDir%02. Ico means that the icon of "My Computer" is defined as the 02.ico file under the icon theme directory. The front of the icon is a display icon in the system. The icon file may be: My Computer=%ThemeDir% 01.icl,1 This definition points to an .icl icon library file followed by a comma. The number 1 refers to the first icon in the icon library file. If you have IP installed in your system, just double-click the .iptheme file IP. Will automatically start and then open the icon theme and then click on the left side of the IP window “Icons & Cursors” you can see the specific icons defined in the icon theme on the right are divided into desktop, start menu, folder, drive, Other categories, such as file types, mouse pointers, and quick launch bar, basically cover all the icons in Windows, and even many thirds. The file format of the software is the same. If you double-click the icon item, you can change or select the icon item and click Change on the right... Find the desired icon and confirm it will be loaded in the IP. Click on the lower right of Apply. You can apply the current icon theme and wait a few seconds. The icon theme of the system is replaced. The number of replaced icons is determined by the number of icons included in the icon theme. If the icon theme icon type is very complete, basically the icon in the entire system changes. You will not be able to recognize it. It should be noted that the icon definition in IP is an absolute path, that is, the icon defined in IP. Once the .ico file or .icl file is moved, it is invalid in IP. The theme release form is a separate .ip file. This file is an IP-specific format. The icon compression package includes the icon file in the icon theme and the IP icon theme definition file is not available for use with other software. Like theme, just double-click it will load in IP, but IP will first extract the tarball into your own installation directory. The location of the .ip file in the themes directory will not affect the use of the icon theme. The IP icon theme can also contain the mouse pointer. The definition is the same as the icon. Let's find a more complete IP icon. The file will understand! 2. How to convert png and ico format files to each other? There are many ways to convert between the two formats. It is recommended to use IconWorkshop. It is very convenient to implement batch swapping of two formats. Note that an ico file may contain multiple icons of different sizes and a nice gadget! 3. How to Replace the system icon? 1 Change the icon of a shortcut or folder: Right click on the shortcut or folder - Properties in the Properties dialog box, click "Change icon". Select the icon (ico) you want to change to OK. This method is only applicable to a single shortcut or folder. It is not applicable to other files. 2 Replace the icon of the entire system: It is recommended to use iconpackager to replace the system icon. This is the safest way for everyone to download and install iconpackager and then go to http://Www.wincustomize.com/Download icon packager-specific icon package (IP package if it is rar or zip file, manually change the suffix name to ip) Double-click it will appear iconpackager program window select the IP theme point just added "application" (apply) You can complete most of the icon replacement in the system using iconpackager. You can also make the IP icon package yourself. 3 Replace the application icon: The common method is to use reshacker (full name Resource Hacker). Use reshacker to open the icon you need to change. Windows application main program (usually exe file) in reshacker On the left side of the face, there will be “icon group”. This directory expands to see the icon resource contained in the file. Right click on the icon you want to replace. “Replace icon” and replace it with the one you want. After saving the icon, this method is not applicable to all programs because many programs use a lot of packing methods! 4. How to change the size of the desktop icon? Desktop Right-Property-Appearance-Advanced Item drop-down icon The right side is the size you want to change. The default is 32. Normally imitate Apple's 48. Note: The size cannot exceed 72! 5. How to delete the recycle bin on the desktop? “Run” Enter gpedit.msc in the "Local Computer Policy" in the "User Configuration & Rarr; Administrative Templates & Rarr; Desktop" branch to display the corresponding policy option in the right window will be "from the desktop Delete Recycle Bin> Policy Item Enable to restore and disable it! 6. How to restore and rename the Recycle Bin? The following attachment provides the registry file. It can be imported after importing!