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>>How about viewing the 256 icon in explorer,do a print screen and creating a new one based on it with only 16 colors by pasting into ImageEdit.exe (included with VFP3,5 and VS6)
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>>Then you can use your new ICO file instead.
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>Yes, of course, but it looks HORRIBLE! That's the problem, the icon has a gradiente, and I would like to use it in this way.

Use the resource editor in VC++ to edit the icon.