Getting WinXP to show 72x72 Icons?

Sunday, May 25, 2003 by Faithless | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Ok i had a look around the board in case this was already solved, but i didnt find anyhting. Basically, i just purchased the lovely Orion suite and because of my high res i yanked up the icon size to 72x72 (i like large icons/cursors). The only thing is the icons are using what i believe is the 48x48 icons and stretching it to make it display 72x72 instead of using the 72x72 versions in the icon files. Its pretty obvious if you go into the icon file and diaplay the 72x72 version right next to the same icon that windows is stretching into 72x72.

I've tried rebuilding the icon cache and increasing the icon cashe sise in Iconpackager but no joy...
Any ideas?
Cheers!
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mormegil
Reply #1 Sunday, May 25, 2003 8:35 AM
This is odd, if you are useing Orion that should work. I just tryed it and it is working for me. Any other contributing facters you can think of?

Faithless
Reply #2 Sunday, May 25, 2003 8:41 AM
Um... Lets see. Im using WB4 and the newest IP. They are both unregistered at the moment... I used to subscribe to OD but my computer blew up. This one is literally like a week or two old and i havent bought a renewal to OD yet. But surely Stardock arent that evil...?

Im using a 1280x1024 res (i think thats the dimensions anyway) in 32-bit colour. I guess i havent tried rebuilding the icon cache via Tweak UI yet, doesnt that just do the same thing as IP does?

I honestly cant think of anything else. Windows is fully up to date, im using the latest Nvidea drivers, im at a loss really!

Faithless
Reply #3 Sunday, May 25, 2003 8:58 AM
Just did a "Rebuild Icons" using Tweak UI and no change. I think i might experiment with making a copy of one of the icons and using Microangelo to remove all image formats apart from 72x72... A little drastic though, and i dont intend to do that for every single one of the many icons!

I was thinking of emailing Stardock directly with this problem, its just im thinking this is more of a Windows problem not a Stardock one...

By the way, i just twigged that Mormegil is the screen-name for Paul Boyer, so just wanna say your icons rock, hence my determination to show them in their full glory! Mind you there is always Objectdock which im guessing would work a treat with the icons, but that proggie is just a little bit too unstable still to use as an out and out replacement for the Taskbar... (Plus i sadly need a system tray which Objectdock doesnt do at the moment)

Faithless
Reply #4 Sunday, May 25, 2003 9:13 AM
Ok, i just noticed that the icons have a 64x64 icon size... I just switched to that rather than 72x72 and everythiing looks beautiful again without the weird jagged edges and stuff that i had earlier. Its not a huge leap from 72x72 so im happy! No idea why i cant bump it up that little bit higher, but what the hell. Aint that the magic of using computers? Thanks anyway for your help Paul.

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