These are a few offerings to replace the standard folder icon for an important folder -- C:\Windows or C:\WINNT.
You might say, "Yeah, that's the familiar Windows logo," -- what's special?
-- This is the first time you've ever seen a close representation of it as a desktop icon,
and you won't find this anywhere else on the Internet. The next closest that you might find will look
like the unlabeled image on the far right (which is usually limited to a single format of 32 X 32 X 8).
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The Windows (2) icon represents what the original icon (or logo) wanted to be. The concept calls for the image of "a window" that gives the impression of a "motion blur" as it floats from left to right. Usually, company logos rely on a basic, flat color version that reproduces well from only several colors or even a single color over whatever background color -- they produce economically through print media such as letterheads and product packaging graphics. That's why this logo was designed with the "chopped up" trails on the window. So I made a second version of this icon where I've smoothed out those damned blocky streaks.
Here's another version of the Windows logo as a desktop icon.
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Your replacement icon for the Windows folder doesn't have to look like the Windows logo
-- it's more fun to make it look like any kind of window you want:
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-- It doesn't even have to be a window; how about this "Simon" icon,
using the same color scheme as the Windows logo.
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| Simon | porthole |
Lastly, here's another kooky replacement icon; at least it's a floating window!
-- Does anyone recognize it?
(Place the mouse pointer over it to find out what it is.)
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FORMATTING:
All icons are 32-bit.
Icons Nos. 1, 2 and 3 are formatted to three sizes: 64,48,32.
All the rest are in two sizes: 64, 48.
To download an icon, right-click an image, then click Save target as.