Some icons in my Windows 7 (desktop) have these strange borders:
I tried changing the size, and it seems to be disappearing at some point (around 48 or even 32px.). Changing between Small-Medium-Large on right-click context menu doesn't change the size of this icon, it stays small, and the border remains in place.
I want that icon to be as large as those three on the right are (I can easily change their size by CTRL+mouse wheel, and they always stay clean and sharp).
The strange thing is – that icon is 128x128px.. so I thought it would work until it reaches that 128px maximum size. But it works another way, very weird. Knowing that *.ico file may contain different sizes, I've opened it in Photoshop as 128x128px, and saved it as a different *.ico file. And the damn thing still doesn't want to work.
Is it possible to solve this (instead of changing the icon to another one?)
Best Answer
Your .ICO file needs to have a 256x256 layer to be able to be zoomed above 'medium' and not have that border.
That layer may have to be RGB/A as well, but I'm not 100% on that off hand.
Here's some good information on the changes to Windows Icons in Vista.