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Icons in Windows Vista are visually more realistic than illustrative. Icons are scalable in size up to 256 × 256 pixels. Required icon sizes are 16 × 16, 32 × 32, and 256 × 256; optional sizes are 24 × 24, 48 × 48, 64 × 64, 96 × 96, and 128 × 128. Icons now display thumbnails depicting the actual contents of files.
It is no longer possible to add a background to folders via a desktop.ini. Icons of any 16-bit files including New Executables or DLLs are not extracted by Explorer (or any other 32-bit process) even in 32-bit versions, and therefore are not displayed. [15] The shell's Change icon dialog cannot browse 16-bit icon libraries and DLLs.
Icons of various sizes are supported: 16 x 16, 24 x 24, 32 x 32, 48 x 48, 64 x 64, 96 x 96, 128 x 128 and 256 x 256. Windows Explorer can zoom the icons in and out using a slider or by holding down the Ctrl key and using the mouse scrollwheel. [38] Live icons can display the content of folders and files themselves rather than generic icons. [39]
Click and drag the outside border of the window to modify its size. Click and drag the top bar of the window to reposition it on your screen. To save or reset your adjustments, click Window | Save Window Size and Position or Reset all Window Sizes and Positions.
The Share overlay icon for shared items in Windows Explorer has been removed; this change means that users must now select a folder each time, every time to determine if it is being shared. The Share overlay icon was a feature of Windows since Windows NT 3.1. [15]
The Welcome Center was also improved with new icons, eliminating the use of one icon for several different items, and all of the old icons in the User folder were replaced. With this build, Microsoft neared its goal of Vista installing in 15 minutes, [58] with some reviewers reporting that 5728 took as little as 16 minutes to do a clean install ...
The Line Up Icons command on the desktop was removed and replaced by the Align to Grid option. [2] Due to this being a toggle, simply aligning desktop icons once without further constraining their placement requires an extra click. [3]: 47 The Minimize all windows command on the taskbar was removed.
Windows Vista contains a range of new technologies and features that are intended to help network administrators and power users better manage their systems. Notable changes include a complete replacement of both the Windows Setup and the Windows startup processes, completely rewritten deployment mechanisms, new diagnostic and health monitoring tools such as random access memory diagnostic ...