new icons

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" <> wrote in message
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> 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?

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.

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"GSalisbury" <> wrote in message
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> "Claude Beck" <> wrote in message
> news:A445C5CF-2C4F-41D5-88CF-...
>> 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?
>
> 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.

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.

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

Put the name in quotes

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"Claude Beck" <> wrote in message
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> Good thought, but I already tried that. Now the filename is:
> "icon.ico.bmp". Can't seem to get rid of that "bmp" thing.
>
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> "GSalisbury" <> wrote in message
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>> "Claude Beck" <> wrote in message
>> news:A445C5CF-2C4F-41D5-88CF-...
>>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>

"GSalisbury" <> wrote in message
news:...
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> "Claude Beck" <> wrote in message
> news:A445C5CF-2C4F-41D5-88CF-...
>> 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?
>
> 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.

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.

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"Peter Webb" <> wrote in message
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> "GSalisbury" <> wrote in message
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>> "Claude Beck" <> wrote in message
>> news:A445C5CF-2C4F-41D5-88CF-...
>>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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.

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"Peter Webb" <> wrote in message
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> "GSalisbury" <> wrote in message
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>> "Claude Beck" <> wrote in message
>> news:A445C5CF-2C4F-41D5-88CF-...
>>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>

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).

"Patrick Palczewski" <> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> "Claude Beck" <> wrote in message
> news:CFDCB875-2E42-4174-8C4D-...
>> Good thought, but I already tried that. Now the filename is:
>> "icon.ico.bmp". Can't seem to get rid of that "bmp" thing.
>
>