IconX is a free Windows Explorer context menu extension that enables you to change the icon used for any file-type. It can also change the icon used for any individual file, and for any individual folder.IconX? Yes. Do not mistake this with the shareware Stardock IconX, though, which is a completely different product. A few →
How to change the icons used for any file type on your PC
Description: ResizeEnable
is a small, free windows
hack that gives you the
ability to resize any window
by dragging and dropping
its lower right corner –
including those windows
that normally do not allow
you to resize them.
Reasons why you would
need a program like this (a)
if a program’s
windows exhibit strange
behaviors when run under
different resolutions from
the one used by the
programmer, a program like
this can be a lifesaver in
that it will allow you to
resize the window such
that it works for you (b)
sometimes if you have an
unusual screen resolution
some windows may behave
strangely, or (c) because
you can, and you would
like to
Customize your folders with StyleFolder
Freeware program StyleFolder can perform a handful of interesting folder customizations straight from the Windows right-click context menu, including changing the folder’s icon, using an image as folder background, and changing the font color used inside the folder. All customizations are saved into the folder itself and are preserved across PCs or over the network. →
Save and Restore your desktop icon positions with “Shock Desktop”
Shock Desktop is a program that can save the locations of your desktop icons and easily restore them if and when they change. It allows for the creation of multiple profiles and includes a number of useful functions. There are a number of programs that save and restore the locations of desktop icons, but I →
Xentient Thumbnails
Xentient Thumbnails changes the default icons for image files in Windows explorer and replaces them with thumbnails of the images themselves. It works automatically on all image files within the Windows environment without user intervention. Every Windows user knows that setting “thumbnails” in the folder view options results in a thumbnail view of the pictures →
Folderico
[Note: this review was written by my friend Mohammed Raei from Amman, Jordan; see his personal blog here - The Freewaregenius] Folderico is a nice little program that allows you to change the color and individual icons of folders right from the context menu. This is a versatile program and can be used in so →
IcoFX
IcoFX is an advanced icon creation and editing program that offers a full range of tools and effects for icon manipulation. It can handle a wide range of data types, color modes, resolutions, and image/icon formats. IcoFX is an impressive program; the tools that are available for image manipulation and the various effects and editing →
Free Icon Resources
I’ve been keeping my eye out for some time now for some good, free icon resources. Here’s a number that I would like to share; remember, you can use Imagicon or IcoFX to convert any image into the ICO format in whatever icon size(s) that you need. If you want to create icon libaries check →
Imagicon
Imagicon is a small program that performs image to icon conversions as well as image conversions across all the supported formats (BMP, PNG, JPG and ICO). It features a simple drag and drop interface. I was looking for a simple program to convert PNG’s and JPG’s into Icon (ICO) files and found this one. I →
DIManagerX
DIManagerX saves the location of desktop icons, allowing you to restore them if their locations change Imagine you’ve just cleared your desktop of all the icons you do not want and put in all the shortcuts and files that you typically like to work with, exactly the way you want them. Wouldn’t be cool to be →
Icon Phile
Icon Phile is a small program that can be used to change Windows system icons (including desktop icons, cursors, drives, start menu and folders), as well as the icons for any document format/extension such as compressed files, MS offices files, graphic and media files and others. Ever installed a really cool program such as an →
BeCyIconGrabber
BeCyIconGrabber is a very small app that extracts icons contained in resource files (DLL, ICL, OCX, CPL, SRC, ICO and CUR). It also enables saving them singly in ICO, CUR, BMP, or PNG files, or collectively within resource libraries (DLL icon libraries or ICL cursor libraries). There are many such freeware icon extracting programs. This one is →
