Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Just Use XP Don't Bother With 3rd Party Icon Managers
This program screwed up my C drive icon and I have not been able to get it back. The program was always resource intensive and would sometimes crash my PC. I just use the standard interface to Windows XP now by clicking on a file's or folder's "properties" and then selecting the icon from there. Therefore, I no longer recommend Active Icons or any of the other icon management tools that are out there. I've tried several but it seems like dangerous territory for other programs to tread in. I've decided that I am going to work through XP for this and besides, it does just as good a job anyway.
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Original Post
Active Icons
This is a program that helps you manage the icons your computer displays. I've had some problems with it. At this point I am not going to recommend this program but I am going to leave the link here in case some of you want to experiment with this. When I first started using this program I liked it because it gave me a quicker way to assign icons on my computer files. However, while using this program I assigned an icon to my C drive and later it disappeared and now it displays the ugly icon for unknown files. This happened 6 months ago and I still have not figured out how to fix it. However, this is an extensive program so maybe some of you can figure out how to make it pay off. I'm not going to mess around with it any more and I may take it off the site if no one else decides to play with it.
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_ai_d.html
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Original Post
Active Icons
This is a program that helps you manage the icons your computer displays. I've had some problems with it. At this point I am not going to recommend this program but I am going to leave the link here in case some of you want to experiment with this. When I first started using this program I liked it because it gave me a quicker way to assign icons on my computer files. However, while using this program I assigned an icon to my C drive and later it disappeared and now it displays the ugly icon for unknown files. This happened 6 months ago and I still have not figured out how to fix it. However, this is an extensive program so maybe some of you can figure out how to make it pay off. I'm not going to mess around with it any more and I may take it off the site if no one else decides to play with it.
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_ai_d.html
# posted by Ethan Dickenson : 2:34 AM
