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7CONIFIER lets you quickly alter icon sets in Windows 7
DeviantArt has a fairly active community of people tweaking and customizing Windows 7. One of their favorite tricks is to replace a whole bunch of system and software icons with desaturated or monochrome variants. This "unifies" the system visually, and the whole thing feels like one "package" instead of a bunch of disparate applications.
Usually, this is a manual process, and it's fairly laborious and error-prone. Not all icon sets supply icons for the same applications, and changing the files around can get old quite fast.
7CONIFIER is a slick application that makes this process as painless as possible. You feed it with an icon set, click Apply, and you're done. It's even responsible enough to propose creating a "default set" containing your current "vanilla" icons when you first fire it up.
To be honest, I'm not 100% sure it worked on my system. I mean, I see a different icon for Opera, but I don't see a different one for Notepad or for Explorer. So, I guess it's partially successful (at least on my rig). That's par for the course with this sort of thing – customization is tricky business!
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Subscribe to commentsRolandixorSep 12th 2010 3:59PM
=)
I feel like a troll saying this:
We can do this on linux from our appearance settings...
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LOL!
Is it just me or is Windows kinda missing something?
MarkyB86Sep 12th 2010 4:51PM
Although linux can do this.. (Im very glad it does)
I am glad I can do this on the windows box finally. (for free)
DeoWulfSep 12th 2010 7:02PM
And it got... 3 out of my 9 taskbar apps. Not even Zune or Outlook.
KarlWSep 12th 2010 11:49PM
If it can't do system icons/apps, my first guess would be a permissions problem. Try running as administrator.
I'm not even sure Windows 7 let's you modify system files (they're digitally signed).
NightHawkSep 13th 2010 2:31AM
If it doesn't catch your application, it means it has a different filename. Select an icon pack, go to edit it and you'll see that every icon is associated to a filename. For example: Picasa to picasa.exe (which in my case was wrong. Mine was picasa3.exe). Just edit the filenames there, save, reapply and voila!