How do you change a regular picture into an icon for your desktop?

Question

when i click "change icon" and browse for the picture, it doesn't show up in the window. for example, i want to put this image as my firefox icon. lol. http://www.mrbass.org/freeware/firefox/firefox.jpg

thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

go to start menu. click on your picture. click change your picture. than click browse for more pictures.

Answer 2

It doesn't show up because it is a .jpeg file; you need to create an .ico file

You can use a free icon editor called IcoFX to extract an icon from this image

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/icofx.html

Answer 3

ok, this requires downloading a program

1. go to Site 1, in sources, download the program

2. Install it

3. open the program

4. press add files

5. select your photo, press next

6. change 'Destination Directory" to somewhere u know, like the desktop , press next

7.this is transparency, select the colour of the background, in ure case, this is white OR if you want the white background around it, than select "as is", press next,

8.wait...when a window labeled "Icon Control" comes up and has several pictures of your icon, press save all. Press finish

9. press OK

10. right click on the program and click propeties

11. go to the "SHORTCUT" tab

12. click "Change Icon..."

13.click "browse"

14. go to where u saved it and select it

15. select the icon in the box under the directory

16. press ok until ure out

Answer 4

Don't know about you, but I just right clicked on the image and used the "Set Image as Background" option that came up.  That will set any image you want as a Desktop image.

If you want to use it as an Icon for the link to your Firefox, then you have to download the image to a folder or where you can locate it.,, Best to try to resize it to icon size in a graphics editor then save it as a GIF.  Locate the GIF image and highlight the name, press F2 to rename the extension to ico.

Example:  firefox.ico

You'll get a popup warning about the extension change, but click OK.  Then go through the steps of changing the icon for your FF link and locate where the *.ico file is.

Made a PNG.  See if you can change extension to ico and use it:

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/8536/...

Ron