About This Product
Microsoft
Icon Library
How to Find Icons
The interface is really easy to use. If you wish to view the different Icon Libraries first simply click on the Tab at the top the interface that says Icon Library. The next thing you will need to do is select one of the categories located in the left hand side of the interface. There are a total of 20 starting from Animals and ending with Vehicles. The one highlighted in grey is the one that is currently selected. Once have selected the category you wish to see then you will need to select from one of the sub categories in the list box. The contains all the sub categories under the category you selected. Example below contains a lot of different sub categories that deal with Animals in one way or another.
View a Library
To view a library simply double click on the name you wish to view in the the example above Africa was double clicked on and and the libray shown below was opened.

 
Icon Library Features
The Icon library features allow you to do a lot of different things. From here you can save icon by invidual names into a directory of your choice. This would be helpful when you are creating a desktop themes or need some icons for programming or a web page. You can also select multiple Icons and save them as an Icon libary which is an .ICL file which is useful in organizing your own icon libraries. You can also change the size of the Icon being displayed and find out the format the Icons were made and the different color setting, for example you could view only Icons made with 256 colors or vice versa icons with only 16 colors.
Changing Icon on You Desktop

A powerful feature is that you can change all the Icons that are part of the Windows Operating system. Simply click the Customize Windows button which will open a menu displaying all the Icons of your operating system. To drag and drop from one file or library to the customizing window of windows Click on Desktop icons or Standard icons tab Select an icon from the file or library Holding down the left mouse button, drag then release on the standard or desktop icons which you wish to replace. Click on Apply button The icons will be automatically replace the old.