high color icons for windows 3.11

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• noone

  January 2005

  i dont know where, but if you want to know, ive been able to get icons up to 256 colors in 3.1. thats the highest you can go.
  just use any 256 color icons (2k ones are that)
• NitricAcid666

  January 2005

  so all i need to do is take them from 2k? , hmm what about xp? cause i dont have 2k nstalled :(
• Slash

  January 2005

  Try Calmira XP Shell.
• TRAiNER4

  January 2005

  The shell works, but the icons are not set for 256-color by default. Something in the registry has to be set. I think it's the same as any Windows version. Install a graphics driver, then do this registry change, if Win3.1 supports it:
  
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Window Metrics]
  Key: Shell Icon BPP
  Type: String Value
  
  16 is a little too high for Win3.1 and uses a bit more memory.. 4 will set it to 16-color icons. So, set the value to 8. It's just as effective as 16, but with less memory usage. I'm not sure if that key path exists in Windows 3.1, but the Key does exist.
• NitricAcid666

  January 2005

  hmmm digging through the win 3.1 registry is weird,, im in the current user place but i cant find no control panel or windos metrics. there is a desktop but it has nothing with icons as i can se.
• Slash

  January 2005

  T4, obviously you are mixing this with Win95 original
• TRAiNER4

  January 2005

  I know.... I literally have to go install win31 and find the keys myself. Search Google in the mean time.
• NitricAcid666

  January 2005

  well a cruder 16 bit version of resistry editor is instaled from the 16 bit ver of IE 5
• Anonymous

  March 2005

  lol today i read on a site if you have set the display to 16 bit color you cna use 256 color icons in 256 colors so i may try that
• BlueSun

  March 2005

  you should be using 16 bit colour atleast if you want high colour icons....
  
  using 256 colour icons on a 256 colour display isn't gonna give you very good performance... i think the icons will mess up a lot..
• Anonymous

  March 2005

  i have tried it and it works or atleast i think it does. I took the shell32.dll off the xp computer , there was more than one shell32.dll to my suprise. they all had different icon sets, like one had the ones from windows xp - which i didnt use cause i fgured they would look bad on 256 color. There was the set from windows 2k/ME which i did use cause i like them and the ones from windows 95/98 was one there two in a different shell32