[XP] Is it possible to use Windows Icons that are ►not SQUARE?

[frivolousme]

I'd like to be able to use rectangular icons — 32px wide x 16px High — but I seem to be limited in XP to 32x32 or 16x16 etc.

The icon will be used as a shortcut, but I can't get that to work either. Is it simply not possible in XP? Thanks

fm

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Not possible in Vista or Win7 either owing to the invisible "pixel grid" on the screen which demands that all icons have equal number of pixels in both planes.

 

[frivolousme]

Phillip thank you so much for settling this issue that has dogged me for the longest time. I have a very robust icon-editing/creating program called Microangelo which hints at being able to create "customized" icons of non-square orientation and will even let you glimpse it . . . before showing you a distorted icon, forced into the square box that (as you have confirmed) XP restricts you to.

I revisit this issue every now and then, this time related to my Show Desktop icon in the Quick Launch bar which forces a double-height taskbar to accommodate this one icon's height. I'll create/find something 16px x 16px and use it instead. Thanks!

fm