MAKE YOUR OWN ICONS

Make your own icons

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 It's shockingly easy to create your own icons in Windows XP. Let's do it: Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, and then click Paint. On the Image menu, click Attributes. Type 32 for both the Width and Height of the document, and make sure that Pixels is selected under Units. Click OK to create a new 32x32-pixel document: the size of an icon.Now add type,color, or do whatever you'd like to your image. I like to shrink photos(headshots work best) to 32x32 and simply paste them into my Paintdocument. When you're finished, open the File menu and click Save As.Use the dialog box to choose where you want to save your file, thengive it a name followed by ".ico" (without the quotes), and click Save.(The extension ".ico" tells Windows that it's an icon file.) You justcreated an icon! Now you can change any shortcut or folder to your ownicon—just browse to it on your hard drive.Make your own iconsIt's shockingly easy to create your own icons in Windows XP.

 Let's do it: Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, and then click Paint. On the Image menu, click Attributes. Type 32 for both the Width and Height of the document, and make sure that Pixels is selected under Units. Click OK to create a new 32x32-pixel document: the size of an icon.Now add type,color, or do whatever you'd like to your image. I like to shrink photos(headshots work best) to 32x32 and simply paste them into my Paintdocument. When you're finished, open the File menu and click Save As.Use the dialog box to choose where you want to save your file, thengive it a name followed by ".ico" (without the quotes), and click Save.(The extension ".ico" tells Windows that it's an icon file.) You justcreated an icon! Now you can change any shortcut or folder to your ownicon—just browse to it on your hard drive.

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