>Used your info on creating 16 & 32 pixel icons - worked very well. My question is this. My icons look "rough" (low resolution). On my desktop I see many icons that are very sharp - they look like very small, high resolution pictures. How does one get icons with a higher resolution. TIA.

Hi John,

If you have Visual Studio, VC++ can open and create the various icons (including 256 colors). It will not shrink the icon for you. Put the icon in the clipboard, open the Image Editor, select 16x16 and paste it into that application. Then copy back to the clipboard, then to VC++ and insert a new image.