Xp Icons - Again!!!!! [RESOLVED]

ive searched for hours, days and weeks for those bloody XP Menu icons, toolbar icons etc. Cant find any where you can simply right click > save target as. Tried making my own, but apart from the fact they look crap, the transparency is never right, even after reading many tutorials. I cant even rip them, as i dont have XP. So if anybody has office XP, or knows where to get icons, sized 16x16 and 32x32 ID BE TRULY GRATEFUL


THANKS!

Where did you get them the first time?

crappy odd ones here and there. Half which didnt work.

Some throug google, some vbAccelerator, some screen dumped into paint, which i modified and pasted into Irfan View. There just doesnt seem to be any decent ones, and half the ones i already have dont load into my VB Res files:mad:

Try getting a resource hacker and hack explorer.exe or shell32.dll or something. You can change the start string with it, you should be able to extract a few images.

Did i not make myself clear? Im NOT USING XP, OR OFFICE XP

I have Win98SE and Office 2000;)

Oops, missed that. Do it on someones computer that does then, shouldn't be hard.

Thanks, im still waiting for someone who is generous enough to help:) ........:o

Well if noone's offering to help and share, can anybody show me some good links to make Transparent valid Windows Icons (*.ICO)

Thanks:wave:

I decided to try the Microangelo 21 Day evaluation, and get as many icons done as possible:)

I wasnt convinced that Microangelo was the best Icon Maker......until i downloaded it. Finally i can create XP style specific 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 Icons with transparency, best of all they actually load into my VB RESOURCE files, which doing a Batch conversion before never did the trick:)

But i would be happy if someone could share there XP Style icons:wave:

Well if noone has XP icons, does anybody know any tutorials on how to make XP icons?

Thanks

if you got a email address than can receive 3mb+ i can send ya shell32.dll and explorer but im too lazy to extract the icons 4 ya.

or you could try to catch me on msn xousnet@hotmail.com

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Zip it up please, im sure it will work.


Thanks

this will also work -->

http://abx.no-ip.info/filez.zip

User: Temp
Password: password

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this will also work -->

http://abx.no-ip.info/filez.zip

User: Temp
Password: password

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Name or password must be wrong, i cant get in

changed permissions on the file to everyone but it should have worked....

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Originally posted by <ABX
changed permissions on the file to everyone but it should have worked....

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works now thanks, dloading on my slow 56K:blush:

This wont overwrite my current shell32.dll and Explorer.exe will it?

naw

as long as you dont extract them into c:\windows or c:\windows\system32

but i dont think the files are in the same place in '98

just extract em 2 ur desktop or c:\

not included what i want, but its good never the less. Do you think i could use the XP Message box icons and put them into my Win98Se Shell32.DLL? M MsgBox icons suck, infact would it be possible for me to use the XP Shell32.DLL without corrupting system?

Thanks

I would replace the icons on a one-by-one basis with resource hacker. i dont know what would happen if you replaced win98's shell32.dll with xp's.

Windows 98 isn't supposed to support 32-bit icons, so i wouldn't recommend it.

1) i used Resource Hacker to extract about 5 icons, theres even AVI files in there:p

2) Could i not convert the 32-bit icons to 256 or whatever Win98 supports?...



....They look much prettier than the Win9x icons:lol:

Yeah you can do that, but you loose the alpha channel, it ends up looking quite dodgy especially when you try to make it transparent.

ok thanks, guess ill leave them as they are then.

Considering i see more of the Blue Screen Of Death than critical message boxes:D