How can I change my game icons that I click to play the game?

My icons were crap when I installed the game and want to change them, but it says the picture has to be an icon. How do I do this?

try this site, just upload your standard picture file and it will convert it to an ico file

Online Pic To Icon Converter , Website Favicon, Windows Icon, XP Icon, Vista Icon, iPhone Icon, and Android Icon.

Hello Firelance,

In addition, the tutorial below may be able to help show you how to change it's icon.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/53402-shortcut-change-icon.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thank guys. One more question if you can answer, do you have an estimated guy about how much pixels a normal game icon may have?

There's a limit but someone else will need to answer.

I just wanted to add, if you like box art a lot, if you browse to Windows Games Explorer, where it lists the games you've installed, and you drag and drop from there you can use these icons, which are often nice and almost never used on the desktop

depends on what type of icon display mode u use, small, medium or big... every size has its own limitation

use this link to view the exact sizes

firelance69 said:

Thank guys. One more question if you can answer, do you have an estimated guy about how much pixels a normal game icon may have?

Click to expand...

Usually an icon file contains more than one image, to be able to re-scale it without trouble. The images in the icons, as far as I know, usually range from 16 to 256 pixels and from 4bpp to 24bpp + alpha.

And, if you want to create icons while you're offline, a good free program to create an icon file from a png (which supports also alpha channel) is IcoFX. You may want to give it a try!!

Just launch IcoFX, load the png you want to use as an icon then click the Windows "orb-like" button on the toolbar. IcoFX would usually take care of the rest for you