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Claude Beck

I've tried using Paint to make some new icons in Vista Home Premium. But
Paint won't let me save the finished product as an icon by using the ".ico"
extension. Used to do this all the time in XP. Can anybody help?
 
Claude Beck said:
I've tried using Paint to make some new icons in Vista Home Premium. But
Paint won't let me save the finished product as an icon by using the
".ico" extension. Used to do this all the time in XP. Can anybody help?
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I don't know this for a fact but why not try letting Paint save it as its
..bmp (I assume you've got it sized properly etc.) then rename it to .ico and
see what happens?
Nothing to lose and it can't hurt anything.
Geo.
 
Good thought, but I already tried that. Now the filename is: "icon.ico.bmp".
Can't seem to get rid of that "bmp" thing.

<= cb =>
 
Open Windows Explorer, find the directory where that icon file is, click the
file to highlight, Right-click then select Rename .. rename it to icon.ico
and press Enter. Or was this what you tried and yet it didn't lose the "bmp
thing"?

Patrick P.
 
Put the name in quotes

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Claude Beck said:
Good thought, but I already tried that. Now the filename is:
"icon.ico.bmp". Can't seem to get rid of that "bmp" thing.

<= cb =>
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GSalisbury said:
I don't know this for a fact but why not try letting Paint save it as its
.bmp (I assume you've got it sized properly etc.) then rename it to .ico
and see what happens?
Nothing to lose and it can't hurt anything.
Geo.
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Icons aren't bitmaps. To start off with, they have a transparency channel,
and bmp does not provide for transparency. In fact, icons are way more
complex; an icon for example can have several different resolutions which
are dynamically selected by the o/s.

I can't help with the underlying enquiry, but I do know that icons could not
possibly be bitmaps unless all of them were rectangular, and they clearly
aren't.
 
An icon is several bitmaps in one file. Windows can use bitmaps as icons
though with each release the support lessens.
 
An icon is several bitmaps in one file. Windows can use bitmaps as icons
though with each release the support lessens.
 
You got it right. That was exactly what I tried that didn't lose the "bmp
thing"! This whole thing is getting me frustrated -- I can't even find a way
to change the file type to "ico" (I thought I saw that somewhere once).
 
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