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Windows Vista Icon FAQs
Windows Vista Icons | Editing Vista icons | What is new in Windows Vista Icons?
Compatibility of windows Vista Icons with Windows XP
Windows Vista compressed icons are compatible with Windows XP. these icons are useful in XP as well but in the standard formats like 48x48, 32x32 and 16x16, which will be read as well as displayed too. Only the 256x256 PNG formats will be ignored. The most important is, Windows XP never reject Windows Vista's icons.
- Can we add other formats, like 128x128, in Vista icons?
Sure you can use all the other formats supported. 128x128 formats are actually used in Windows XP Desktop enhancers, these applications will support this icon format when ported under Vista. Also format is 96x96 which is the size used natively on the Windows Vista desktop, so add this format in the icons to get good quality visual results of these icons.
- How to create 256x256 icons compatible with Windows Vista as well as Windows XP?
One can create uncompressed versions of the icons, they will surely work on both OS XP as well as Vista. Only the negative point is that icon file size will be 400Kb for an icon.
- What are the details about Windows(R) Vista(TM) icons, Colors used in Vista icons, Sizes supported in Vista icons?
Colors, sizes are exactly same as in Windows XP: Up to 32ARGB and up to 256x256. Even some form of bitmap compression is also supported.
- Is there any styleguide online available for Vista icons?
The IconWorkshop 6.0 which permits, among other features, to create Vista icons with PNG compression is released. Some tutorials are also available:
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