Vista - How do I resize these icons...?

Been working on this for 2 weeks now and it's finally starting to get to me that it is impossible to do what I want to do. I have researched a lot of ways to do it, but it either is a failed process or, I'm just not doing it right

What i want to do is get my other icons (such as my Adobe, Ventrillo, Final Fantasy XI) to show up as they are like my Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and Mozilla Firefox icons. Here are 2 images to show what I mean.




For some odd reason, I just can't find out how to get the icons I want to resize the way the want them to. The icon "Media2," I did in Adobe Photoshop is a .bmp format image saved with the file extention .ico . Can someone help me out please? Oh, and I would also like to be able to resize them the way Vista does under my file directory as I am also having the same issure in there.

Hello Elvaan, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Unless the icons for the shortcuts are using a 256x256 bit icon, they will not display to the larger sizes that you want. That is why you see the box around the icons when you have the View set to large on those. You can read more information about Vista icons at this link.

Vista Icons - Introducing Vista Icons - How to create Vista Icons

Hope this helps,
Shawn

You can also hold down the CTRL key and roll your mouse-roller up and down... This will resize all of your icons together and maybe you've tried that already, but it's a fast way to browse through several sizes and maybe you can get it to meet your needs...

I tried reading over that tutorial, but all I could really gather is that I need Iconworkshop. Is this correct? Or can I do it all on adobe photoshop? Also, if I can do it in photoshop, would you know how to save "sequence" will go. It seems I have to save the image multiple times in multiple formats.

The basic idea here is that the OS includes only limited number of icons - for processes and such that *it* has native.

Other apps that you install will only scale their icons accordingly if their installation package includes *multiple* size icons - those that don't don't have an icon in that particular size that you want, hence it shows a smaller icon with that little box around it.

That is why you need that software - to make your *own* icon at that exact size that you want for it to display correctly.

Does it make a bit more sense now?

It makes a little more sence. Just sucks I have to go out and buy another piece of software.

You don't have to go out and buy anything - there are freeware icon software available as well - see Free Software List for Vista

And, FWIW, you could also bug Adobe and the other software developers to do something about it themselves....

This answer was very helpful to me. I appreciate it. Sorry to bring back a thread, but your search engine didn't provide any newer ones.

Is there a way to make the titlebars and headings smaller?

Again, thank you.

Hi there,

You can reach individual properties for all your windows and stuff by right clicking your desktop -> Personalize -> Color and Appearance of Windows (first option) and then click the lower option "Open the classic vindow something". Then select the option you want to handle and play a little with the numbers... You can change colors, fonts, icon sizes, etc.

P.S. The option names I'm typing here might not be accurate... My OS is in Spanish so I'm translating to what sounds logic :P

Again, very helpful post, I appreciate it. Why do they keep hiding these settings from me? Its agrivating.