I have been running Vista for a while now, and although I like the Aero interface and other elements of Vista, I’m glad I can easily change them now more to my liking. I wanted to specifically talk about Vista icons today though. On Windows XP the maximum size of icons was typically a maximum of 128×128 pixels, with people viewing them on the desktop at 32×32.

Windows Vista comes and brings us icons that are 256×256, adds dynamic scaling, and adds a new icon type…..the Live icon. With Live icons you will be able to view a richer preview of the contents of the folder instead of a static icon set. In addition to these new features Vista adds many more icons that icon artists will need to create when building new icons for Vista.

So what do you do when you want to change your Vista icons to something completely different? Stardock recently released IconPackager 3.2 which now supports changing Vista icons including Live icons. You can change the entire set of Vista icons with just a click. Program icons can also be changed as well. So if you are wanting to change the default Vista icons to something mor than the default icons, then IconPackager is the way to go.

IconPackager 3.2

Tags: iconpackager, vista, vista icons, themes