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If you want to make your own icons, using Microsoft Paint can help you with that.
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Open Microsoft Paint.
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Go to Image, then Attributes. Change the height & width to 32 exactly![1]
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Click View, then Zoom, then finally show grid.[2]
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Click View, then Zoom then Custom, and finally, put it at 800%!!!!!!
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Start painting. Grab a tool, draw away, and enjoy your amateur/moderate/professional work.
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Save your file first as a .bmp file
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Go to the File, open it up, and either copy it or re-save it as an .ico file. So when you go to 'Copy', it will automatically bring up a pop up that says "Save as".[3]
- Ignore where it says "file type" . Just rename it if you want, and then at the end of the name put .ico
- Ignore where it says "file type" . Just rename it if you want, and then at the end of the name put .ico
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Go to the folder or file you want a new icon for, go to Properties, go to Customize (or if it is already on the first selection then it should say "Change icon") and change the icon.
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Save the *.ico version of the file on your desktop. It makes for easier finding later.[4]
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Go to Properties, then Change icon/customize, then Browse.
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From there, go to your c: drive (your main drive), then program files/icon files/icons, then just look for cool icons you can find.
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The best thing about this is that you can easily find icons only cause your computer will automatically change your search interests to icons only!
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If you don't save your file as a .bmp file first, you could actually create some random virus, and ruin your computer.
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- The Microsoft Paint program
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