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How to make a modern .ICO Windows application icon file
A desktop .ICO file can contain an icon image at a variety of sizes. Most of the info out there on the net about .ICO files is pretty old. I was looking around to answer the question of "Which formats should I include in my ICO file?." In-depth details about ICO files for Windows XP can be found in this MSDN article. Vista will also add support for 256x256 and 128x128 size images.

The .ICO file I just created contains these images:
  • 256 x 256 at 32-bit (this is forward looking for Vista, 32-bit = 24 + alpha)
  • 48 x 48 at 32-bit
  • 32 x 32 at 32-bit
  • 16 x 16 at 32-bit
  • 48 x 48 at 8-bit
  • 32 x 32 at 8-bit
  • 16 x 16 at 8-bit
Some software that might help you in creating the perfect ICO file:
Posted by dustin on November 28, 2006. Tagged with
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