WMP Icon- Open call

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Jeff

Well,
I'm putting out a DISTRESS call.
Can anyone who knows how,
PLEASE make a substitute for that abomination of an icon for WMP.
And FAST
Don't know if that was a joke;(on the world of computing); or if the people
responsible are color blind,
but OMG, that is the most disgusting icon I've EVER seen. That color scheme
is gross.
Seriously; it's gross and whoever did it should be either promoted; for
making the most UGLY icon in Vista, or fired; for their complete lack of
color sense.
Makes me want to vomit.
So please; anyone who knows how; please please please make a new icon
package(that'll replace that one), and quick.
Maybe we could start a contest?
or a simple how to guide to replacing it;would be cool too.

Jeff
 
Well, I agree that it is not a good icon. There was no reason to change the
old one. This one is not nearly as easy to identify visually and quickly in
start menus or on the task bar.

But, in the end, it's an icon. I guess we'll get used to it, huh? I'd
rather they change WMP than just change the icon :).

Dale
 
Dale,
You got all those initials after your signature.
Do you know how to make a new icon?
Cuz if ya do; please do. PRETTY PLEASE
My point is; I don't want to get used to it.
I want it gone!!!
I actually like WMP11;it's the icon that makes me ill.
lol

Jeff
 
You can make a new icon, just a small bmp, but why don't you just change to
the old one. Right click on properties, select change icon and you have two
choices, the new blue one and one that looks like the old one.
 
John,
SWEEEEEETTT
Thanks SOOO much,
but alas; it shows 2;but both that disgusting new one
(that's the shortcut I tried)
So I went to the icon folder; and couldn't find that one.
Found the green play arrow though.
That'll do for now, I guess.
Might havta vpc an older build and grab it from there.


Jeff
 
John,
No old style here.
Any other suggestions?
Where is that icon located,cuz I only get the NASTY one, when I do it the
way you said to.

Jeff
 
Did it Did it Did it;
grabbed the old one from an older build YEAY
BYE BYE DISGUSTING WMP11 icon
woohoo

Jeff
 
John,
Thx for the info,
got the major ones changed; the shortcut and the quick launch one.
Now; on to the toolbar,
Any ideas?

Jeff
 
John,
If you don't mid, I'd like to post how to change it;for those of us that
can't stand that icon.

Jeff
 
Thought I'd ask you; since you showed me how.
Never one to ignore excellent advice, or plagiarize-OOO-thanks; I will post
a procedure.

Jeff
 
Damn is that you Jeffie? With an AIE=Acute Icon Emergency?

With a distress call? LOL We'll have to put you on speed dial or give you a
pager number. Is this anything like a code blue?

And no one from the Vista Shell team or "Team Vista Redmond Iconistas" has
jumped to help? What kind of software company is this MSFT anyway? They
don't provide Icon Emergency Care (IEC) with that big expensive OS--$400
frogs for Vista VIProomultimate past the rope line? And ole Bill Frist no
longer Senate Majority leader--I bet he didn't include it in that spiffy
Bush health plan with all the donut leaks written by the pharmaceutical
company attorneys and K street lobbyists.

You know if you don't like the WMP icon you can just put Imusic on the pc
and play with that. I use it because it's much faster than dragging and
dropping WMP files from XP to Vista and because somehow the mp3s are labled
files not supported by WMP on Vista when I try to drag and drop them from XP
and they don't seem to import.

But if you want to sub for the WMP icon your choice is infinite--Within
windows alone there are 3000 of what us laypeople on the street call
intrinsic icons in Vista, and the Itinistas with all their fancy vernacular
call "native" icons.

And this is short of using a program like Microangelo to design icons. My
take on your post was you want to sub a suitable icon of your choice for the
WMP icon rather than create one.

There are all kinds of 3rd party free icon harvesters, but I much prefer to
do this manually either drawing from icons within Vista or you can make a
Jeff's icon folder as well by simply creating a folder, then going to urls
and adding favicon.ico to the url after a / . Not every site will have
them. Sometimes you'll see the favicon at the upper left corner of the
window, but it won't drag to the desktop so you do a suspender number or
pull it from the top left extreme corner of the window and let it snap back
2-3 times and then you can pull it from that same location to the desktop.
Then you must rename the favicon and give it a h ome, i.e. you have to tuck
it into that favicons folder (call it anything you like Jeff's Icons or
whatever so that it will not revert back to a generic small "e" when you
delete TIFs or when you reboot.


1) As you probably know every Windows since 95 has hundreds of intrinsic
icons, but vintage Win 2K and now Vista has more of them in the .dlls in
System 32 you can try many many sources to collect icons that come default
with the OS, and then a whole other paradigm where you can acquire icons in
folders via downloads, program folders, zips, new versions of Win Media
Player for example, Office, etc.

2) A huge number of these icons w will show up if you make a new folder in
Vista and
then right click folder>customize Tab>Change Icon Button>Look for Icons in
File>%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll. I find you just have to go file by
file to check which ones have icons so I do it when I want to take a break
and make a note on it in a notepad for this.

3) You can then also hit the Browse button and when you're taking a couple
minute break>click on each of the .dlls in there. Many will yield icons,
and of course there are new .dlls because of the new OS Vista in
shell32.dll. What I do with them is to copy the name of each .dll that
yeilds icons into something like notepad, etc. with a quick description of
what icons are there.

4) Icons are in downloaded programs' folders wherever you might have them.
If Vista were on C:\> then yocould search C:\ and C:\Windows and
C:\Users\Profile\Downloads and C:\Program Files and C:\Windows\System32 and
many others.

5) Also you can add favicon.ico onto any url and many yield an icon>even a
MSFT site occasionally, and then change the name of the favicon and tuck it
into a folder to preserve it.

6) When you right click a folder>properties>customize tab>change icon
button>you can browse to any of these locations.

5) Make a folder for the icons and call it whatever you want. You can
collect the icons and drag them into that folder after you change the name.

6) For some reason in Vista's latest 3 or 4 builds through RTM, it is not
allowing you to change a shortcut icon and make that stick this way, and I'm
working on a workaround for that. It will let you do this as usual to a
folder.

CH
 
Yo Chad,
Gotta print this out, as now it seems HP has caught up;and provided
printer drivers now!! Woohoo!
Did get it changed back to the old one; thanks though; ya are correct; I
just wanted that ugly one GONE-bye bye.
Did get it done; but definetly will print out your stuff; and play around
with icons. i actually like most of them; other than that abomination.

Jeff
 
Well,
The old wmp icon isn't there; that's why I grabbed it from an older
build; but thanks again; gonna mess around with icons now-set up a Jeffie
icon folder like ya said.

Jeff
 
Definitley an icon noob-is me!!!
lol

Jeff

Chad Harris said:
Damn is that you Jeffie? With an AIE=Acute Icon Emergency?

With a distress call? LOL We'll have to put you on speed dial or give you
a pager number. Is this anything like a code blue?

And no one from the Vista Shell team or "Team Vista Redmond Iconistas" has
jumped to help? What kind of software company is this MSFT anyway? They
don't provide Icon Emergency Care (IEC) with that big expensive OS--$400
frogs for Vista VIProomultimate past the rope line? And ole Bill Frist no
longer Senate Majority leader--I bet he didn't include it in that spiffy
Bush health plan with all the donut leaks written by the pharmaceutical
company attorneys and K street lobbyists.

You know if you don't like the WMP icon you can just put Imusic on the pc
and play with that. I use it because it's much faster than dragging and
dropping WMP files from XP to Vista and because somehow the mp3s are
labled files not supported by WMP on Vista when I try to drag and drop
them from XP and they don't seem to import.

But if you want to sub for the WMP icon your choice is infinite--Within
windows alone there are 3000 of what us laypeople on the street call
intrinsic icons in Vista, and the Itinistas with all their fancy
vernacular call "native" icons.

And this is short of using a program like Microangelo to design icons. My
take on your post was you want to sub a suitable icon of your choice for
the WMP icon rather than create one.

There are all kinds of 3rd party free icon harvesters, but I much prefer
to do this manually either drawing from icons within Vista or you can make
a Jeff's icon folder as well by simply creating a folder, then going to
urls and adding favicon.ico to the url after a / . Not every site will
have them. Sometimes you'll see the favicon at the upper left corner of
the window, but it won't drag to the desktop so you do a suspender number
or pull it from the top left extreme corner of the window and let it snap
back 2-3 times and then you can pull it from that same location to the
desktop. Then you must rename the favicon and give it a h ome, i.e. you
have to tuck it into that favicons folder (call it anything you like
Jeff's Icons or whatever so that it will not revert back to a generic
small "e" when you delete TIFs or when you reboot.


1) As you probably know every Windows since 95 has hundreds of intrinsic
icons, but vintage Win 2K and now Vista has more of them in the .dlls in
System 32 you can try many many sources to collect icons that come default
with the OS, and then a whole other paradigm where you can acquire icons
in
folders via downloads, program folders, zips, new versions of Win Media
Player for example, Office, etc.

2) A huge number of these icons w will show up if you make a new folder in
Vista and
then right click folder>customize Tab>Change Icon Button>Look for Icons in
File>%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll. I find you just have to go file
by file to check which ones have icons so I do it when I want to take a
break and make a note on it in a notepad for this.

3) You can then also hit the Browse button and when you're taking a couple
minute break>click on each of the .dlls in there. Many will yield icons,
and of course there are new .dlls because of the new OS Vista in
shell32.dll. What I do with them is to copy the name of each .dll that
yeilds icons into something like notepad, etc. with a quick description of
what icons are there.

4) Icons are in downloaded programs' folders wherever you might have them.
If Vista were on C:\> then yocould search C:\ and C:\Windows and
C:\Users\Profile\Downloads and C:\Program Files and C:\Windows\System32
and
many others.

5) Also you can add favicon.ico onto any url and many yield an icon>even a
MSFT site occasionally, and then change the name of the favicon and tuck
it
into a folder to preserve it.

6) When you right click a folder>properties>customize tab>change icon
button>you can browse to any of these locations.

5) Make a folder for the icons and call it whatever you want. You can
collect the icons and drag them into that folder after you change the
name.

6) For some reason in Vista's latest 3 or 4 builds through RTM, it is not
allowing you to change a shortcut icon and make that stick this way, and
I'm
working on a workaround for that. It will let you do this as usual to a
folder.

CH
Click to expand...
 
Jeff --

Have you looked in the wmp folders?

Are you on a dual boot with XP by any chance because you can nail 'em there.

There are a number of WMP and Windows Media related icons on your XP boot
that have something like 50 windows media related icons including all the
wmp icons if you're on a dual boot.

You only have to go to the C:\ or whatever driver Program files\Windows
Media Player folder. Also in XP there is a hidden Windows Media Player 6.4
and icons there.

In XP if you type in mplayer2 WMP 6.4 will spring up. I tried this in
Vista and no dice. Instead, WMP 11 comes up in Vista and it comes up if you
type wmplayer in the run box as well so I can only assume the killjoys at
Redmond didn't 'easter egg' Wmplayer 6.4 into Vista.

In Vista if you either make a new folder or Rt. click on any folder or
icon>propertiesx>Customize Tab on Rt.>Change Icon>C:\Windows\System32\ a
lot of those .dlls and other folders have icons.

As to WMP on Vista, if you right click a folder or icon besides going to the
wmp.dll file in C:\Windows\System 32\Shell if you do the same thing and go
to C:\Program Files and look in

C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmpnssci.dll
there is a different icon.

However, I don'ts see a lot of wmplayer icons in the vista folders I tried
either in system32 or C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player but I might have
missed them.

Sites like this one below have the classic WMP icons for download.
http://www.artuproar.com/?page=moreinfo&num=42586

I'll try that email you give for here, and if it works later I'll send you
detailed instructions on harvesting icons from Windows and web sites with
screenshots I have.

CH
 
Chad,
that's a spam catcher-
i usually don't -but here ya go-jeffwhat45(x)(y)(z)@gmail.com
ya know what to remove.
lol

Jeff
 
Jeff--

I just did this. I am on a dual boot with XP Pro SP2 and Vista RTM. I did
an icon change drilling into every possible WMP .dll or .exe or anything
associated on XP. The problem is though (icon yield wise) that I don't have
WMP 10 anymore.

If you had a dual boot with one boot having WMP10 there are a lot of icons.
With WMP 11. there' aren't.

Given this set of circustances to get the old icons, you will need to turn
to 3rd party. I difind the round icon you're familiar with associated with
WMP in

D:\Program Files\Windows Media Player

D:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\setup_wm.exe

Since I'm on a dual boot and did setup from a restart, D:\ is my XP drive
when viewed from Vista.

CH
 
Chad,
Got it done,
look at my other WMP Icon post-I upped the old .exe in a zip.
If ya grab that; it'll change.
Oh, for my email -remove the brackets and xyz-lol
Would like to get with ya about icon stuff.

Jeff
 
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