How to install the GANT package?

[DamuzZ]

May be I am just toooo stupid, but I can't figure out how to install the Gant Icons, the Way I want. And I also have some generally questions about Icons I'd like to ask. So first the generall qestion and the specific question last and here we go:

1. Is there a great difference in using Icons via IconPacker or using them via shell32.dll ?? (Performance etc...??). I dunno but I'd like to know :)

2. What is the difference in content between the gant_shell32_xp_sp1_shell32 from Kasteo and the full GANT package from devianart from the master himself??? Cause the one from devian is about 10 times bigger than the other one..

3. And now the question this thrad was made for: How the f**** do I use this GANT package with all the icons as .ico files??? (Don't tell me I have to go and change every icon by hand? And if so, who to integrate and change for example the icons in Kazaa or IE???). I mean this big package wich is 50 mp packed and about 140 MB extracted... There are all this .ico files and this desktop.ini (what are the matters of these ones and how to use em??) files in there. I read the readme, it seems only to be helpfull if u have some amount of knowledge, I obviously lack, or sth. like that:

Copy this crap to your desktop.ini file inside the folder you want to add teh background to, you have to use the address bar to get to it, it's hidden.

--------------start copying after this line, young padawon---------------

[.ShellClassInfo]IconFile=put your icon dealie here, look below

IconIndex=0

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]

IconArea_Image=put the path to your image here if it is in this folder or any of it's subfolders go like this:  'gabuin.bmp' or  'subfolder\gabuin.bmp' no 's though. and it doesn't have to be a bmp.

That's the only txt data in this package with at least some instructions, but no help for me.. and I also couldn't find help on devianart or the homepage of the creator.

So I hope my questions were not tooo nooblike and annoying and I am looking forward to get some usefull tips and help from u guys :) Anyway THX for ur time!

[hush66]

1. You can customize a greater selection of icons (eg Control Panel or Common Task Pane icons) if you hacked the shell32.dll file.

2. There are lots more icons in the full GANT set released by Mattahan. The shell32.dll file merely contains a selection of what is available in the full GANT set.

3. For the package with the ico files, you can use them to change your icons manually. You can check out my icon customization tutorial if you like. The desktop.ini file merely changes the background image of that folder which contains the icons.

[DamuzZ]

woah ^^ searched sth like this tut all the time :)

great thx :)

[DamuzZ]

ok, so far everithing went well and system is looking great. But still one questions ^^

How to change the mimetype icons ? (Of course I could apply the icon to the programm that uses the file, but thats not a good Idea when a programm uses more than 1 file extension)

[hush66]

To change mimetype icons, simply open your Explorer, go to Tools --> Folder Options --> File Types. Select the file type you want to change the icon of, and click Advanced. You'll then see the Change Icon button.

[a-dawg]

My GANT