Here recently I have noticed a few of my icons look a little different. most of them look fine but if you look at the iTunes and GMinder icon you can tell is has like a little box around it. Does anybody know how to get rid of this? It is very irritating.

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any ideas?

It does that when the icon has no size built in for the size its displaying it as.

Theres a way to get rid of it but im pretty sure it doesnt work in 64bit. I remember doing it a while ago when i had 32bit, then when i upgraded to 64bit i found i couldnt do it. If you have 32bit it IS possible, just cant remember where i found the instructions. IIRC it was fixed by a resource hack.

This occurs when the icon does not contain the proper size that you're trying to display them at. Windows *.ico files typically contain a series of different sizes, i.e. 256x256, 128x128, 72x72, 48x48, 32x32, 16x16, etc, from largest to smallest.

When the display size is set larger than the maximum resolution icon provided, Vista draws a faint border around the icon, but doesn't attempt to upscale it. If you really need to fix this, you can add a high resolution (256x256px) icon using a resource editor.

Resource Hacker and tutorial:
http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/
http://www.askvg.com/tutorial-all-about-re...brief-tutorial/

Icons:
http://www.iconspedia.com/icon/google-calendar--744.html
http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152065

I believe you can use PE Explorer to go into imageres.dll and replace that border with a blank icon.

just google 256x256 icon, download and replace!

I got it! thank all of you! That was about to drive me crazy.

Wow, I can't believe that iTunes hasn't got it's 256x256 icon by now