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Old September 5th, 2023
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Originally Posted by Joe Busuttil View Post
In Windows 10, changing desktop icons does not always show the full gallery of icons. WhY?
... But why does the gallery sometimes show only a few icons, none of which I
want to choose?
They are not very exciting icons are they, quite old in style.
I am not totally certain why they might only show a few icons on occasions. Did you scroll left to right or vice versa?
There is a chance you selected the Browse on a previous occasion and the system remembered the previous browse location.
The only other idea I have is that the system selects the preview icons at random. In the same way when posting Smilies on this forum, a set number are set to default and the remainder of the Smilies are set to random.
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It is possible to create your own icons. I've done some simple icons for various purposes using 3rd party icon creators. You might first need Photoshop to get the images to the right size, etc.
The only icon creator I can find on Win XP is GIF Movie Gear. But it is a Shareware app so it is not free.
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