Download/HomepageIcon Customiser is a system tweaking tool, a way to change all kinds of
small but important visual settings like mouse pointers, folder icons, even the little
icons on the Start menu. Several graphical features normally inaccessible to all but the
programmers among us can be changed through Icon Customiser, and the change is not just
cosmetic. If you have chosen what icon is going to represent a GIF or a drive, then you
will instantly recognize it and not waste time checking the file properties or accessing
the wrong file altogether.
Help is excellent, written in Plain English and laid out in traditional Windows fashion.
Finding your way around Icon Customiser is very easy anyway, with the assistance of
right-click enabled bubble help which describes the function of every item listed in the 8
menus. And what a lot of items there are!
The themes are good fun, four are supplied with the software and applying them is
automatic - I liked Brian's Theme which was colourful, cheerful and (more to the point)
gave me an instant visual clue as to what the icon is meant to represent! There are a
stack more excellent themes available from the web site. The menus include a facility for
importing new theme sets, or saving a set of your own as a theme, and Plus! themes can
also be controlled using Icon Customiser.
Microsoft Power Toys offer some of the functions Icon Customiser does, as does the mouse
icon in the Control Panel, and the File Associations windows in Windows Explorer. All
these scattered utilities are fiddly and unfriendly. Icon Customiser brings all their
functions, plus a few extra ones, into a neat, clean and charming interface.
Icon Customiser is 20-day Shareware, with a couple of functions disabled. The programme
comes complete with a handy screen for online ordering by most major credit cards, or a
printed form for snail-mail purchase.
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