Win7 won't recognize .ico (icon) files

[ratliff637]

I have a folder on my desktop that contains a number of .ico files - which I intended to use to customize my folder icons in my media folder. For some reason, Win7 doesn't recognize the *.ico files. The images were all originally .png files, and I used an online converter ([ext link removed] ) to change them all over to .ico files. When I tried to change the icon, I right-clicked > Properties > Customize > Change Icon. Then I browsed over to my desktop, where my .ico files are located. When I selected the proper file and hit Enter/OK/etc it tells me the following.

"<filename.ico> does not contain any icons"

The .ico files are all 128x128 pixels, which SHOULD be an appropriate size, but Win7 acts like it's never heard of an .ico file. Any help out there??

 

[gbb0330]

I have a folder on my desktop that contains a number of .ico files - which I intended to use to customize my folder icons in my media folder. For some reason, Win7 doesn't recognize the *.ico files. The images were all originally .png files, and I used an online converter ([ext link removed] ) to change them all over to .ico files. When I tried to change the icon, I right-clicked > Properties > Customize > Change Icon. Then I browsed over to my desktop, where my .ico files are located. When I selected the proper file and hit Enter/OK/etc it tells me the following.

"<filename.ico> does not contain any icons"

The .ico files are all 128x128 pixels, which SHOULD be an appropriate size, but Win7 acts like it's never heard of an .ico file. Any help out there??

try another converter, also google: how to create windows icon

 

[ratliff637]

I have converted all .ico files back into .png files, then used a different converter to go back to .ico files. I still have 3 and a half hours until I get home I'll try these new files and let you know what happens..


UPDATE: Alright so that seems to have been the issue - for whatever reason the website that I had first used had given me some broken .ico files. So I plugged my .png files into another online converter (http://www.png2ico.com/) and this time things seem to work..
Except...I can change the icons of folders stored locally (Desktop) and even on my 1tb external, but I have a 4tb Western Digital Network Attached Storage (http://tinyurl.com/jtwjrcb) hooked up via ethernet to my laptop. For whatever reason there is no option to change folder icons on any of the folders located on the NAS. My account has full administrative privileges on the local machine, so permissions shouldn't be an issue.
Does anyone have any ideas, or should this question be posted elsewhere?

 

[gbb0330]

I have converted all .ico files back into .png files, then used a different converter to go back to .ico files. I still have 3 and a half hours until I get home I'll try these new files and let you know what happens..


UPDATE: Alright so that seems to have been the issue - for whatever reason the website that I had first used had given me some broken .ico files. So I plugged my .png files into another online converter (http://www.png2ico.com/) and this time things seem to work..
Except...I can change the icons of folders stored locally (Desktop) and even on my 1tb external, but I have a 4tb Western Digital Network Attached Storage (http://tinyurl.com/jtwjrcb) hooked up via ethernet to my laptop. For whatever reason there is no option to change folder icons on any of the folders located on the NAS. My account has full administrative privileges on the local machine, so permissions shouldn't be an issue.
Does anyone have any ideas, or should this question be posted elsewhere?

I don't have the option to change icons on network drives either. Seems like there is no easy way to do that, see below:
http://superuser.com/questions/685732/set-custom-folder-icon-for-a-network-folder-in-windows-file-explorer