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  Anonymous October 17, 2007 at 10:08 am

  I hate to disappoint you, but this is not true. It is still saved in the selected format and not as an .ico despite having that extension.

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  Jason October 17, 2007 at 10:08 am

  well, as far as I have tested, I can use those ico files as folder icon. That’s what I mean in my article

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  Anonymous January 8, 2008 at 8:14 pm

  TO SAVE A PICTURE AS AN ICO FILE IN PAINT, YOU NEED TO USE QUOTATION MARKS AROUND THE FILE NAME:

  ie. “Test.ico”

  SAVING THE FILE AS Test.ico WITHOUT THE QUOTES WILL SAVE THE FILE AS A BITMAP.

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    ThanksMan October 23, 2011 at 4:46 am

    ^^^ Annonymous -
    Nice work, worked out nice. Wanted to say thanks for ending my google searches.

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    Ankh October 28, 2011 at 6:34 am

    Thanks man, I tired this and it worked!

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  someone else October 24, 2011 at 2:04 am

  wow..snarky much? It depends on what version of Windows you have on how / if ico saving is possible in paint

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  2evolve December 14, 2011 at 10:03 pm

  all it took were the quotes – Most helpful, Many thanks

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  THX SO MUCH December 18, 2011 at 10:41 pm

  Thank you so much!!!!!

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  Brekmister February 5, 2012 at 9:32 pm

  it works But I still cant use it because “There is no Icons in ____.ico”

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  loopsalot February 7, 2012 at 2:38 pm

  with windows vista, this does not work – you can save an .ico file you save, windows tells you there are no icons in it.

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  JJ February 10, 2012 at 1:49 am

  Well none of those work – I tried both methods and all they do is save a blank file! Funny thing is when I use to use XP I never had a prob making folder icons at all – seems Vista has taken a step backwards instead of going forward as it should if it was progressive!!!! Grrrrrrrrr

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  Jj February 10, 2012 at 1:59 am

  OK – FINALLY got it to work – I did the Quotes – BUT I also set it to 256 colours – and then save as – it does tell u u will lose some colour – but just click OK – and it saves it WHEW! Thanks for the Quotes info – although I have also tried it without the quotes but kept it on the 256 colours and that works too. Shame it is not great looking though – XP had a great folder pic – looked smoother – I am going to check my XP on the old computer and see how I did those. But thankx for the MS Paint info that was great

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  Peter Mokhothu March 4, 2012 at 12:34 pm

  I’m using MS Visual C#. The file gets saved as an icon. Fine. But when I try saving those icons to my applications, they don’t work.

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    Rick March 29, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    What everyone else is saying is right. Even with using quotation marks, they still aren’t actual .ico files required by Visual Studio. I tried it with Visual Basic Express, Win 7 and it doesn’t work.

    The reason you can still use them as folder icons is because folder icons don’t need to be in the .ico format, but I haven’t looked up to see what the requirements are.

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  Johnson Jones March 27, 2012 at 9:59 am

  Just because the extension says .ico does not mean its a .ico. Windows may interpret this as an icon file, and read it but other application may not.

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  Oliverdejohnson March 28, 2012 at 12:13 pm

  Thanks man….quite helpful

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