Saving Themes

I see no one has answered your post so I guess I'll take a shot. I am unsure as to specifically your problem, (i.e. more info.) but have you checked your IP settings. There is an option to "display your shortcut overlay options". Try unchecking this or checking it. Also, make sure you haven't made your icon sizes larger than 48x48, if this is your intention, then use IconX to customize the icons. Goodluck!

yeah its not the shortcut overlays, thats the overlay that displays on an icon when it is a shortcut.... let me explain in detail..

I wanted to customize my an iconpackage for myself to use on my laptop and desktop... I like certain icons from one package and certain icons from another package, so what i did was, load the package i liked the most icons of... then i went into the icons and cursors tab and i proceded to change different icons to match my liking, for example i took the red internet world icon from compewter for my internet, then i changed my folders to be from another icon package, then i changed my music folder to be a ipod icon that i downloaded from the misceleneous icons on WC....


So now I have my master set of icons that i would like to save as a theme....


Now when i save, ive been having one of two problems....

First problem, id save the package, put it onto my other computer load it up, and realize not all the icons saved properly, my recylcling bin is missing an image, as well as my powerpoint image that i selected.... I got past this problem by saving the package again and then making sure all the icons where saved by selecting the package i saved and clicking preview and seeing if all the icons saved...


Now my next problem, after checking to see that all icons did indeed save... i put the package back on my other computer and loaded it up.... this time problem was different..


When you do a preview of the icons, or apply them and look at them in the icons and cursors tab, each icon is supposed to appear with a large picture and right to the side of it a small picture, representing what will be seen in your taskbar.... the large picture is correct for all of them, but the small picture that is supposed to be a duplicate of the large picture, is not.. it is a small picture of the next icon to the right.... so when im looking at the icons in the icons and cursors tab the first icon is my documents, the big icon of my documents is there, but the small version of it that shows right besides it is a picture of my computer, so then you look at my computer, its a big picture of my computer, but the small picture (the taskbar picture) is of my network places, and so on and so forth...

Now this seems at first to be causing no problems, but when i delete things or do certain tasks all of a sudden my icon images will get reset to a blank white icon, for example ill empty my recycling bin and all of a sudden it turns into a white icon and doesnt reset when i reset my computer, i have to reload my messed up theme again, only for it to happen not to long afterwards.... (ive also noticed it happens more on my desktop than my laptop, but still has happened on my laptop)


Why am i having so much trouble saving my customized theme that i made by using icons from other premade themes?

Ok, I have just attempted to accurately simulate what you have explained. Well, I did not have any problems, however, I do no have two PC's to try loading on. Here is what I did...I loaded a theme I liked, Aero, then I went to the Icons and Cursors tab. In the Icons and Cursors tab, I proceeded to change my Icons using three different packages...GT3, Icon-A-Day, and Alien 2005. I changed maybe 12-15 icons in all. After this, I saved the file as a different named, filled in the appropriate info., and checked "icons for XP only" option. Then I just went to IP and loaded it. I tried the Recycle Bin, it was fine. If you did not customize your icons this way, (i.e. you instead started with a completely blank package) well then I will need some time to configure all those icons as you did. I will start now...check back later. Oh yeah, about the preview images, all of my regular packages have the same view as did yours. Also you are running IconPackager on you labtop correct?

Ok, I've just completed creating a custom icon set using File>New>Package. Again, I did not have any problems. I changed 18 icons total, three in each category. I stopped at custom files. There is no problem on my end, but maybe I am not modifying as you did. You should probably contact stardock support directly, or get on the IRC. Sorry I couldn't help (not like I possess the Technical Intelect to help anyway). Goodluck!

you accually did help me confirm the fact of what i did was right, i accually just figured out what was happening and made a coplete set that worked correctly.... the problem was i did not click on the for windows xp only option, after saving with that clicked all images saved correctly... i was even able to salvage some images from the ones that incorrectly saved by adding them and then resaving with the xp option checked, thanks alot for accually aknowleging me and helping me out, and confirming my theory so i know it wasnt just a fluke

No problem my man. Glad I wasn't a complete failure. Take it easy!