For the average Joe my icons work best these following programs: AveDesk, RK Launcher, Object Dock, Pixadex, Candybar. If you are a software developer the downloads on my site are provided in several file formats. ICO, ICNS, and PNG's.
Unfortunately, the Longhorn Alternative GUI Kit is no longer available for download due to some Intellectual Property Violations (says Microsoft). If you would like the light version of the gui kit (lacking the actual theme, but containing all of the skins and icons), Contact us and we will provide a link to the download.
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You can do one of two things. One, visit http://axialis.com - and purchase IconWorkshop and create custom icons using that program. Or you can visit our services page and contact us for a design quote on custom icons.
You can display you're Icons at 48x48 by right clicking on the desktop & selecting Properties, Appearance, Effects & select Use large Icons. To see how to display your icons at 128x128 [& other larger sizes] check out this page.
Here's some tips for if you've downloaded some icons & don't know what to do with them or how to change the existing icons of folders, drives, software etc. You can also use software to change your icons such as IconWorkshop , IconPackager or Microangelo.
To change the My Computer, My Documents, Recycle Bins etc. manually. Right click on the desktop & select Properties . Click on the Desktop tab & click on Customize Desktop. Click on the icon you want to change & then browse to the new icon you want to change it to.
Creating a shortcut to a folder, drive, software etc. is one of the easiest ways to change the icon. Create a shortcut, right click on it & go to Properties, make sure your on the Shortcut tab then select Change Icon & then browse to wherever you have the new icons on your PC. Select the one you want & click on OK, then OK again.
You can change most folder icons by right clicking on the one you want to change & clicking on Properties, go to the Customise tab then select Change Icon & then browse to wherever you have the new icons on your PC. Select the one you want & click on OK, then OK again. To change any other folder that won't allow you to change it in the normal way you can use software like IconWorkshop or IconPackager.
To change icon file types (e.g. wav, mp3, gif, jpg) you can do it in windows without using any other software. You can also do it with software. The advantage of using software in that you can save the changes you make as a theme. To change file types in windows open a folder (any folder) & on the menu at the top select Tools, Folder Options & select the File Types tab. Select the file type you want to change (e.g. mp3) & click on Advanced then Change Icon. Then browse to wherever you have the new icons on your PC. Select the one you want & click on OK, then OK again. You can also use IconPackager or Icon Phile to change the file type icons & save the changes as themes.
You can change floppy drive, hard drive, CD drive icons using IconPackager. If you have SP1 for Windows XP installed you can use IconWorkshop. Using IconWorkshop you can change the icon more than 1 hard drive, it doesn't change the icon of every hard drive on your PC. For example, if you call one hard drive a backup drive you could just change the icon of that hard drive to the backup hard drive icon.
Use IconWorkshop, IconPackager , or Icon Phile to change those.
