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  Installation instructions for the Alyson Hannigan Icons 2.5
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  This document describes how to use the icons for shortcuts, special
  desktop elements and even for disk partitions.


  Using the Alyson-icons with shortcuts
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  If you want to assign one of the icons to a shortcut on your desktop you just
  have to do the following:

  Let's assume that you've got a shortcut to your netscape browser on
  your desktop called "Netscape Navigator" (works for any other shortcut,
  too!).

  1. Select "Properties" from the shortcut's context menu.

  2. On the second tab "Program" there's a button on the bottom called
     "change icon". Click on it.

  3. In the following dialog enter the full path name to the desired icon
     file (for example "C:\icons\Alyson01.ico"). You can also browse to the
     file by pressing the "browse" button.

  4. In the white space in the middle of the dialog you should now see
     the icon. Simply press "ok" two times and you're finished.

  5. That's all! Your "Netscape" shortcut now looks like Alyson ;)

  You can do this for any shortcut you want.

  I added smaller versions (16x16) of each icon so that they won't
  look ugly e.g. in the start menu or in explorer's detail-view (Window's
  scaling algorithm isn't that good...). The small versions are used
  by windows automatically depending on where they are viewed.


  Using the Alyson-icons with special desktop elements
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  If you want to change the look of special desktop items like the
  workplace-, network- or trash-icon (I definetely do not recommend
  assigning any Alyson-icons to the trashcan at all!! She doesn't
  deserve this!), you need Win98 or the Plus-Pack for Win95.
  To assign one of the icons select "properties" from the desktop's
  context menu and go to the "effects" tab. You should find what
  you need there.


  Using the Alyson-icons for disk partitions
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  Oh, I'm not finished yet! There's another cool thing you can do with
  the icons: You can assign one to any of your harddisk-partitions so that
  Alyson is viewed instead of the ugly grey box in any explorer view.

  To achive this, simply put the icon file and a text file named "autorun.inf"
  into the root directory of the partition. The "autorun.inf" has to look
  like this:

  [autorun]
  icon=<full path to the ".ico" file, for example "Alyson01.ico">

  After the next reboot Alyson will be there.


  Ok, enough for now! If you have further questions feel free to ask me!


  mailto:Qbi@gmx.net
  http://qbi.cjb.net (sorry, but my HP is only available in german language)

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