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

[Madboy]

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!

[mendhak]

Where did you get them the first time?

[Madboy]

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

[Ideas Man]

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.

[Madboy]

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

I have Win98SE and Office 2000

[Ideas Man]

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

[Madboy]

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

[Madboy]

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

Thanks

[Madboy]

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

[Madboy]

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

[Madboy]

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

Thanks

[<ABX]

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

[Madboy]

[email protected]

Zip it up please, im sure it will work.


Thanks

[<ABX]

this will also work -->

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

User: Temp
Password: password

[Madboy]

Originally posted by <ABX
this will also work -->

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

User: Temp
Password: password

Name or password must be wrong, i cant get in

[<ABX]

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

[Madboy]

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

works now thanks, dloading on my slow 56K

[Madboy]

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

[<ABX]

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:\

[Madboy]

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

[<ABX]

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.

[Ideas Man]

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

[Madboy]

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

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



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

[Ideas Man]

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.

[Madboy]

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

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