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50 Most Romantic things to do with your Girlfriend /,Boyfriend . . .
1. Watch the sunset together.
2. Whisper to each other.
3. Cook for each other.
4. Walk in the rain.
5. Hold hands.
6. Buy gifts for each other.
7. Roses.
8. Find out their favourite cologne/perfume and wear
it every time you're together.
9. Go for a long walk down the beach at midnight.
10. Write poetry for each other.
11. Hugs are the universal medicine.
12. Say I love you, only when you mean it and make
sure they know you mean it.
13. Give random gifts of flowers/candy/poetry etc.
14. Tell her that she's the only girl you ever want.
Don't lie.
15. Spend every second possible together.
16. Look into each other's eyes.
17. Very lightly push up her chin, look into her eyes,
tell her you love her, and kiss her lightly.
18. When in public, only flirt with each other.
19. Put love notes in their pockets when they aren't
looking.
20. Buy her a ring.
21. Sing to each other.
22. Always hold her around her hips/sides.
23. Take her to dinner and do the dinner for two deal.
24. Spaghetti? (Ever see Lady and the Tramp?)
25. Hold her hand, stare into her eyes, kiss her hand
and then put it over our heart.
26. Dance together.
27. Let your girl fall asleep with her head in your
lap. (It looks real cute)
28. Do cute things like write I love you in a note so
that they have to look in a mirror to read it.
29. Make excuses to call them every 5 minutes.
30. Even if you are really busy doing something, go
out of your way to call and say I love you.
31. Call from your vacation spot to tell them you were
thinking about them.
32. Remember your dreams and tell her about them.
33. Always tell her how pretty she looks.
34. Tell each other your most sacred secrets/fears.
35. Be Prince Charming to her parents. (Brownie
Points)
36. Brush her hair out of her face for her.
37. Hang out with his/her friends. (more brownie
points)
38. Go to Temple/church/pray/worship together.
39. Take her to see a romantic movie and remember the
parts she liked.
40. Learn from each other and don't make the same
mistake twice.
41. Describe the joy you feel just to be with him/her.
42. Make sacrifices for each other.
43. Really love each other, or don't stay together.
44. Let there never be a second during any given day
that you aren't; thinking
about them, and make sure they know it.
45. Love yourself before you love anyone else.
46. Learn to say sweet things in foreign languages.
47. Dedicate songs to them on the radio.
48. Fall asleep on the phone with each other.
49. Stand up for them when someone talks trash.
50. Never forget the kiss goodnight. And always
remember to say, "Sweet dream . . ."
2. Whisper to each other.
3. Cook for each other.
4. Walk in the rain.
5. Hold hands.
6. Buy gifts for each other.
7. Roses.
8. Find out their favourite cologne/perfume and wear
it every time you're together.
9. Go for a long walk down the beach at midnight.
10. Write poetry for each other.
11. Hugs are the universal medicine.
12. Say I love you, only when you mean it and make
sure they know you mean it.
13. Give random gifts of flowers/candy/poetry etc.
14. Tell her that she's the only girl you ever want.
Don't lie.
15. Spend every second possible together.
16. Look into each other's eyes.
17. Very lightly push up her chin, look into her eyes,
tell her you love her, and kiss her lightly.
18. When in public, only flirt with each other.
19. Put love notes in their pockets when they aren't
looking.
20. Buy her a ring.
21. Sing to each other.
22. Always hold her around her hips/sides.
23. Take her to dinner and do the dinner for two deal.
24. Spaghetti? (Ever see Lady and the Tramp?)
25. Hold her hand, stare into her eyes, kiss her hand
and then put it over our heart.
26. Dance together.
27. Let your girl fall asleep with her head in your
lap. (It looks real cute)
28. Do cute things like write I love you in a note so
that they have to look in a mirror to read it.
29. Make excuses to call them every 5 minutes.
30. Even if you are really busy doing something, go
out of your way to call and say I love you.
31. Call from your vacation spot to tell them you were
thinking about them.
32. Remember your dreams and tell her about them.
33. Always tell her how pretty she looks.
34. Tell each other your most sacred secrets/fears.
35. Be Prince Charming to her parents. (Brownie
Points)
36. Brush her hair out of her face for her.
37. Hang out with his/her friends. (more brownie
points)
38. Go to Temple/church/pray/worship together.
39. Take her to see a romantic movie and remember the
parts she liked.
40. Learn from each other and don't make the same
mistake twice.
41. Describe the joy you feel just to be with him/her.
42. Make sacrifices for each other.
43. Really love each other, or don't stay together.
44. Let there never be a second during any given day
that you aren't; thinking
about them, and make sure they know it.
45. Love yourself before you love anyone else.
46. Learn to say sweet things in foreign languages.
47. Dedicate songs to them on the radio.
48. Fall asleep on the phone with each other.
49. Stand up for them when someone talks trash.
50. Never forget the kiss goodnight. And always
remember to say, "Sweet dream . . ."
Various stages in girls life
Joke: Various stages in girls life
Between the ages of 16 and 18, she is like Africa, virgin and
unexplored.
Between the ages of 19 and 35, she is like Asia, hot and exotic.
Between the ages of 36 and 45, she is like America, fully explored,
breathtakingly beautiful, and free with her resources.
Between the ages of 46 and 56 she is like Europe, exhausted but still
has points of interest.
After 56, she is like Australia, everybody knows it's down there but who
gives a damn.
Between the ages of 16 and 18, she is like Africa, virgin and
unexplored.
Between the ages of 19 and 35, she is like Asia, hot and exotic.
Between the ages of 36 and 45, she is like America, fully explored,
breathtakingly beautiful, and free with her resources.
Between the ages of 46 and 56 she is like Europe, exhausted but still
has points of interest.
After 56, she is like Australia, everybody knows it's down there but who
gives a damn.
calories used in sex
sex is the most practical and funniest way of losing weight.
Look how many calories you can burn :
TAKING OFF THE CLOTHES
With her agreement............................12 cal
Without her agreement.......................187 cal
TAKING OFF THE BRA
With both hands...............................8 cal
With one hand.................................12 cal
With one hand being slapped..............37 cal
With the mouth................................85 cal
PUTTING ON THE CONDOM
With erection.................................6 cal
Without erection.............................315 cal
PRELIMINARIES
Trying to find the clitoris...................8 cal
Trying to find G spot........................92 cal
Without caring at all.........................0 cal
WHEN DOING IT
Holding her up...............................12 cal
Just on the floor.............................8 cal
POSITIONS
Daddy-Mummy.................................12 cal
69 laying.........................................8 cal
69 standing up................................112 cal
Trolley........................................... 216 cal
Italian chandelier.............................912 cal
HAVING AN ORGASM
Real........................................112 cal
Fake.......................................315 cal
POST ORGASM
Staying in bed........................................18 cal
Jumping off the bed.................................36 cal
Explaining why she jumped off the bed........816 cal
GETTING THE SECOND ERECTION
Between 16 and 19 years of age.......12 cal
From 20 to 29...............................36 cal
From 30 to 39...............................108 cal
From 40 to 49...............................324 cal
From 50 to 59...............................972 cal
Over 60......................................2916 cal
PUTTING ON THE CLOTHES
Quietly........................................... .........32 cal
Being in a hurry.........................................98 cal
With her husband opening the door.............1218 cal
Look how many calories you can burn :
TAKING OFF THE CLOTHES
With her agreement.....................
Without her agreement.....................
TAKING OFF THE BRA
With both hands.........................
With one hand..........................
With one hand being slapped..............37 cal
With the mouth.........................
PUTTING ON THE CONDOM
With erection......................
Without erection......................
PRELIMINARIES
Trying to find the clitoris...................8 cal
Trying to find G spot........................92 cal
Without caring at all.........................0 cal
WHEN DOING IT
Holding her up............................
Just on the floor.........................
POSITIONS
Daddy-Mummy...................
69 laying........................
69 standing up............................
Trolley.......................
Italian chandelier....................
HAVING AN ORGASM
Real..........................
Fake..........................
POST ORGASM
Staying in bed...........................
Jumping off the bed...........................
Explaining why she jumped off the bed........816 cal
GETTING THE SECOND ERECTION
Between 16 and 19 years of age.......12 cal
From 20 to 29............................
From 30 to 39............................
From 40 to 49............................
From 50 to 59............................
Over 60............................
PUTTING ON THE CLOTHES
Quietly.......................
Being in a hurry.........................
With her husband opening the door.............1218 cal
Difference between North Indian and South Indian wives
Wives from North:
2. Her father starts or ends every conversation with " ... I say..."
3. She shudders if you use four letter words.
4. She has long hair, neatly oiled and braided (The Dubai based Oil Well Company will negotiate with her on a 25 year contract to extract coconut oil from her hair.)
5. She uses the word 'Super' as her only superlative.
6. Her name is another name for a Goddess or a flower.
7. Her first name is longer than your first name, middle name and surname combined (unless you are from Andhra)
8. When she mixes milk - curd and rice you are never sure whether it is for the Dog or for herself.
9. For weddings, she sports a mini jasmine garden on her head and wears silk saris in the Madras heat without looking too uncomfortable while you are melting in your singlet.
10. She thinks Mohan Lal is the sexiest man alive.
11. Her favourite cricketer is Krishnamachari Srikkanth.
12. Her favourite food is dosa though she has tried North Indian snacks like Chats (pronounced like the slang for 'conversation')
13. She bursts into songs with her cousins in every movie.
14. She bores you by telling you which raaga each song you hear is based on.
15. You have to give her jewellery, though she has already got plenty of it.
16. Her thali (Mangal Sutra) weighs more than the championship belts worn by WWF wrestlers.
17. She is more educated than you.
18. Her father thinks she is much smarter than u
1. At the time of marriage, a north Indian girl has more boyfriends than her age.
2. Before marriage, she looks almost like a bollywood heroine and after marriage you have to go around her twice to completely hug her.
3. By the time she professes her undevoted love to you, you are bankrupt because of the number of times you had to take her out to movie theatres and restaurants. And you wait longingly for her dowry.
4. The only dishes she can think of to cook is paneer butter masala, aloo sabji, aloo gobi sabji, aloo matar, aloo paneer, that after eating all those paneer and aloos you are either in the bed with chronic cholestrol or chronic gas disorder.
5. The only growth that you see later in your career is the rise in your monthly phone bill.
6. You are blinded by her love that you think that she is a blonde. Only later do you come to know that it is because of the mehandhi that she applies to cover her gray hair.
7. When you come home from office she is very busy watching "Kyonki saas bhi kabi bahu thi" that you either end up eating outside or cooking yourself.
8. You are a very "ESpecial" person to her.
9. She always thought that Madras is a state and covers the whole of south India until she met you.
10. When she says she is going to "work out" she means she is going to "Walk out"
11. She has greater number of relatives than the number of people you have in your home town.
12. The only two sentences in English that she knows are "Thank you" and "How are you"
13. She thinks Govinda can dance better than Michael Jackson.
Wives from South:
1. Her mother looks down at you because you didn't study in IIT or Madras or Anna University .2. Her father starts or ends every conversation with " ... I say..."
3. She shudders if you use four letter words.
4. She has long hair, neatly oiled and braided (The Dubai based Oil Well Company will negotiate with her on a 25 year contract to extract coconut oil from her hair.)
5. She uses the word 'Super' as her only superlative.
6. Her name is another name for a Goddess or a flower.
7. Her first name is longer than your first name, middle name and surname combined (unless you are from Andhra)
8. When she mixes milk - curd and rice you are never sure whether it is for the Dog or for herself.
9. For weddings, she sports a mini jasmine garden on her head and wears silk saris in the Madras heat without looking too uncomfortable while you are melting in your singlet.
10. She thinks Mohan Lal is the sexiest man alive.
11. Her favourite cricketer is Krishnamachari Srikkanth.
12. Her favourite food is dosa though she has tried North Indian snacks like Chats (pronounced like the slang for 'conversation')
13. She bursts into songs with her cousins in every movie.
14. She bores you by telling you which raaga each song you hear is based on.
15. You have to give her jewellery, though she has already got plenty of it.
16. Her thali (Mangal Sutra) weighs more than the championship belts worn by WWF wrestlers.
17. She is more educated than you.
18. Her father thinks she is much smarter than u
100 Ways To Make You Smile
01. Call an old friend, just to say hi.
02. Hold a door open for a stranger.
03. Invite someone to lunch.
04. Compliment someone on his or her appearance.
05. Ask a coworker for their opinion on a project.
06. Bring cookies to work.
07. Let someone cut in during rush hour traffic.
08. Leave a waitress or waiter a big tip.
09. Tell a cashier to have a nice day.
10. Call your parents.
11. Let someone know you miss them.
12. Treat someone to a movie.
13. Let a person know you really appreciate them.
14. Visit a retirement center.
15. Take a child to the zoo.
16. Fill up your spouse's car with gas.
17. Surprise someone with a small gift.
18. Leave a thank-you note for the cleaning staff at work.
19. Write a letter to a distant relative.
20. Tell someone you thought about them the other day
21. Put a dime in a stranger's parking meter before the time expires.
22. Bake a cake for a neighbor.
23. Send someone flowers to where they work.
24. Invite a friend to tea.
25. Recommend a good book to someone.
26. Donate clothing to a charity.
27. Offer an elderly person a ride to where they need to go.
28. Bag your own groceries at the checkout counter.
29. Give blood.
30. Offer free baby-sitting to a friend who's really busy or just needs a break.
31. Help your neighbor rake leaves or shovel snow.
32. Offer your seat to someone when there aren't any left.
33. Help someone with a heavy load.
34. Ask to see a store's manager and comment on the great service.
35. Give your place in line at the grocery store to someone who has only a few items.
36. Hug someone in your family for no reason.
37. Wave to a child in the car next to you.
38. Send a thank-you note to your doctor.
39. Repeat something nice you heard about someone else.
40. Leave a joke on someone's answering machine.
41. Be a mentor or coach to someone.
42. Forgive a loan.
43. Fill up the copier machine with paper after you're done using it.
44. Tell someone you believe in them.
45. Share your umbrella on a rainy day.
46. Welcome new neighbors with flowers or a plant.
47. Offer to watch a friend's home while they're away.
48. Ask someone if they need you to pick up anything while you're out shopping.
49. Ask a child to play a board game, and let them win.
50. Ask an elderly person to tell you about the good old days.
51. During bad weather, plan an indoor picnic with the family.
52. Buy someone a goldfish and bowl.
53. Compliment someone on their cooking and politely ask for a second helping.
54. Dance with someone who hasn't been asked.
55. Tell someone you mentioned them in your prayers.
56. Give children's clothes to another family when your kids outgrow them.
57. Deliver extra vegetables from your garden to the whole neighborhood.
58. Call your spouse just to say, I love you.
59. Call someone's attention to a rainbow or beautiful sunset.
60. Invite someone to go bowling.
61. Figure out someone's half-birthday by adding 182 days,and surprise them with a cake.
62. Ask someone about their children.
63. Tell someone which quality you like most about them.
64. Brush the snow off of the car next to yours.
65. Return your shopping cart to the front of the store.
66. Encourage someone's dream, no matter how big or small it is.
67. Pay for a stranger's cup of coffee without them knowing it.
68. Leave a love letter where your partner will find it.
69. Ask an older person for their advice.
70. Offer to take care of someone's pet while they're away.
71. Tell a child you're proud of them.
72. Visit a sick person, or send them a care package.
73. Join a Big Brother or Sister program.
74. Leave a piece of candy on a coworker's desk.
75. Bring your child to work with you for the afternoon.
76. Give someone a recording of their favorite music.
77. Email a friend some information about a topic they are especially interested in.
78. Give someone a homemade gift.
79. Write a poem for someone.
80. Bake some cookies for your local fire or police department.
81. Organize a neighborhood cleanup and have a barbecue afterwards.
82. Help a child build a birdhouse or similar project.
83. Check in on an old person, just to see if they're okay.
84. Ask for the recipe after you eat over at someone's house.
85. Personally welcome a new employee at work and offer to take them out for lunch.
86. While in a car, ask everyone to buckle up because they are important to you.
87. Let someone else eat the last slice of cake or pizza.
88. Stop and buy a drink from a kid's lemonade stand.
89. Forgive someone when they apologize.
90. Wave to someone looking for a parking space when you're about to leave a shopping center.
91. Send a copy of an old photograph to a childhood friend.
92. Leave a pint of your spouse's favorite flavor of ice cream in the freezer with a bow on it.
93. Do a household chore that is usually done by someone else in the family.
94. Be especially happy for someone when they tell you their good news.
95. Compliment a coworker on their role in a successful project.
96. Give your spouse a spontaneous back rub at the end of the day.
97. Serve someone in your family breakfast in bed.
98. Ask someone if they've lost weight.
99. Make a donation to a charity in someone's honor.
100. Take a child to a ballgame.
02. Hold a door open for a stranger.
03. Invite someone to lunch.
04. Compliment someone on his or her appearance.
05. Ask a coworker for their opinion on a project.
06. Bring cookies to work.
07. Let someone cut in during rush hour traffic.
08. Leave a waitress or waiter a big tip.
09. Tell a cashier to have a nice day.
10. Call your parents.
11. Let someone know you miss them.
12. Treat someone to a movie.
13. Let a person know you really appreciate them.
14. Visit a retirement center.
15. Take a child to the zoo.
16. Fill up your spouse's car with gas.
17. Surprise someone with a small gift.
18. Leave a thank-you note for the cleaning staff at work.
19. Write a letter to a distant relative.
20. Tell someone you thought about them the other day
21. Put a dime in a stranger's parking meter before the time expires.
22. Bake a cake for a neighbor.
23. Send someone flowers to where they work.
24. Invite a friend to tea.
25. Recommend a good book to someone.
26. Donate clothing to a charity.
27. Offer an elderly person a ride to where they need to go.
28. Bag your own groceries at the checkout counter.
29. Give blood.
30. Offer free baby-sitting to a friend who's really busy or just needs a break.
31. Help your neighbor rake leaves or shovel snow.
32. Offer your seat to someone when there aren't any left.
33. Help someone with a heavy load.
34. Ask to see a store's manager and comment on the great service.
35. Give your place in line at the grocery store to someone who has only a few items.
36. Hug someone in your family for no reason.
37. Wave to a child in the car next to you.
38. Send a thank-you note to your doctor.
39. Repeat something nice you heard about someone else.
40. Leave a joke on someone's answering machine.
41. Be a mentor or coach to someone.
42. Forgive a loan.
43. Fill up the copier machine with paper after you're done using it.
44. Tell someone you believe in them.
45. Share your umbrella on a rainy day.
46. Welcome new neighbors with flowers or a plant.
47. Offer to watch a friend's home while they're away.
48. Ask someone if they need you to pick up anything while you're out shopping.
49. Ask a child to play a board game, and let them win.
50. Ask an elderly person to tell you about the good old days.
51. During bad weather, plan an indoor picnic with the family.
52. Buy someone a goldfish and bowl.
53. Compliment someone on their cooking and politely ask for a second helping.
54. Dance with someone who hasn't been asked.
55. Tell someone you mentioned them in your prayers.
56. Give children's clothes to another family when your kids outgrow them.
57. Deliver extra vegetables from your garden to the whole neighborhood.
58. Call your spouse just to say, I love you.
59. Call someone's attention to a rainbow or beautiful sunset.
60. Invite someone to go bowling.
61. Figure out someone's half-birthday by adding 182 days,and surprise them with a cake.
62. Ask someone about their children.
63. Tell someone which quality you like most about them.
64. Brush the snow off of the car next to yours.
65. Return your shopping cart to the front of the store.
66. Encourage someone's dream, no matter how big or small it is.
67. Pay for a stranger's cup of coffee without them knowing it.
68. Leave a love letter where your partner will find it.
69. Ask an older person for their advice.
70. Offer to take care of someone's pet while they're away.
71. Tell a child you're proud of them.
72. Visit a sick person, or send them a care package.
73. Join a Big Brother or Sister program.
74. Leave a piece of candy on a coworker's desk.
75. Bring your child to work with you for the afternoon.
76. Give someone a recording of their favorite music.
77. Email a friend some information about a topic they are especially interested in.
78. Give someone a homemade gift.
79. Write a poem for someone.
80. Bake some cookies for your local fire or police department.
81. Organize a neighborhood cleanup and have a barbecue afterwards.
82. Help a child build a birdhouse or similar project.
83. Check in on an old person, just to see if they're okay.
84. Ask for the recipe after you eat over at someone's house.
85. Personally welcome a new employee at work and offer to take them out for lunch.
86. While in a car, ask everyone to buckle up because they are important to you.
87. Let someone else eat the last slice of cake or pizza.
88. Stop and buy a drink from a kid's lemonade stand.
89. Forgive someone when they apologize.
90. Wave to someone looking for a parking space when you're about to leave a shopping center.
91. Send a copy of an old photograph to a childhood friend.
92. Leave a pint of your spouse's favorite flavor of ice cream in the freezer with a bow on it.
93. Do a household chore that is usually done by someone else in the family.
94. Be especially happy for someone when they tell you their good news.
95. Compliment a coworker on their role in a successful project.
96. Give your spouse a spontaneous back rub at the end of the day.
97. Serve someone in your family breakfast in bed.
98. Ask someone if they've lost weight.
99. Make a donation to a charity in someone's honor.
100. Take a child to a ballgame.
mathematical love letter
My Dear Love,
Yesterday, I was passing by your rectangular house in
trigonometric
lane. There I saw you with your cute circular face,
conical nose and
spherical eyes, standing in your triangular garden.
Before seeing you
my heart was a null set, but when a vector of
magnitude (likeness) from
your eyes at a deviation of theta radians made a
tangent to my heart, it
differentiated.
My love for you is a quadratic equation with real
roots, which only
you can solve by making good binary relation with me.
The cosine of my
love for you extends to infinity. I promise that I
should not resolve
you into partial functions but if I do so, you can
integrate me by applying
the limits from zero to infinity.You are as essential
to me as an
element of a set. The geometry of my life revolves
around your acute
personality.
My love, if you do not meet me at parabola restaurant
on date 10 at
sunset, when the sun is making an angle of 160
degrees, my heart would
be like a solved polynomial of degree 10. With love
from your higher order
derivatives of maxima and minima, of an unknown
function.
Yours ever loving,
Pythagoras
Yesterday, I was passing by your rectangular house in
trigonometric
lane. There I saw you with your cute circular face,
conical nose and
spherical eyes, standing in your triangular garden.
Before seeing you
my heart was a null set, but when a vector of
magnitude (likeness) from
your eyes at a deviation of theta radians made a
tangent to my heart, it
differentiated.
My love for you is a quadratic equation with real
roots, which only
you can solve by making good binary relation with me.
The cosine of my
love for you extends to infinity. I promise that I
should not resolve
you into partial functions but if I do so, you can
integrate me by applying
the limits from zero to infinity.You are as essential
to me as an
element of a set. The geometry of my life revolves
around your acute
personality.
My love, if you do not meet me at parabola restaurant
on date 10 at
sunset, when the sun is making an angle of 160
degrees, my heart would
be like a solved polynomial of degree 10. With love
from your higher order
derivatives of maxima and minima, of an unknown
function.
Yours ever loving,
Pythagoras
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Using 128x128 32-bit Icons in Windows XP
Warning: This article involves editing your registry. Following these instructions is at your own risk. InterfaceLIFT and Seen Sai Yang are not responsible for any damage you may cause to your system.
Before you begin, you may want to read Using Mac OS X icons under Windows XP.
Windows XP has two settings for icons: normal and large. Normal icons are 32x32 and large icons are 48x48. Use these directions to get 128x128 32-bit icons.
Step 1.
In case you want to revert to your original settings after these icon changes, you may want to use the registry editor and write down the original settings. If you want to save the original settings, read on. If not, got to step 2.
- Open the registry editor by going to Start, select Run, type in regedit, and press Enter. With registry editor opened, browse to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
- Now on the right, scroll to find IconSpacing, IconVerticalspacing, Shell Icon BPP, and Shell Icon Size and write down their settings.
Step 2.
Download and extract 128x128 32-bit Icon.zip to get 128x128 32-bit Icon.reg.
Step 3.
3. Double click on 128x128 32-bit Icon.reg. When the folling message box appears, click Yes to make changes to the registry.
Under [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics], the following changes will be made to the registry:
- IconSpacing = -2400
- IconVerticalspacing = -2400
- Shell Icon BPP = 32
- Shell Icon Size = 128
Step 4.
Restart Windows XP and you are finished!
NOTE:
Notice also that when you are using 128x128 icons, the icons in the Windows Start menu also change to 128x128. This may cause some icons in the start menu to not show because of space limitations. To fix this, change the standard Windows XP start menu to the classic start menu. To do this, right click on the start menu and select properties. On the Start Menu tab, select Classic Start menu then press OK.
Another way to deal with this situation is to eliminate some icons on the Start menu. Do this by clicking on the Customize... button with Start menu selected on the Start Menu tab. On the Advanced tab in the Start menu items scroll box, select Don¼t display this item for infrequently used items. Press OK when done.
Converting Mac OS X icons to Windows XP
Software
The following is a list of software used in this tutorial. Please download and install these programs under Windows XP before proceeding.
- Stuffit Expander for Windows
- Axialis IconWorkshop
1. Download Icons
Download a set of Mac OS X icons from InterfaceLIFT.com. For this tutorial, we will download Fat-Roll by Matthew Bice.
Save the file in a temporary or download folder.
2. Setup Stuffit Expander
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- Launch Aladdin Expander
- Choose Options from the Edit menu.
- Click on the Cross Platform tab.
- Chose the following settings:
- Convert Text files to Windows Format: Never
- Save Macintosh Files in MacBinary Format: Always
- Add File Extension: Never
- Click OK
This setup process only needs to be done once. You can skip this step the next time you convert Mac OS X icons to the format that Windows XP uses.
3. Extract Icon using Stuffit Expander
Drag and drop the downloaded file 0379_fatroll.sit onto the Stuffit Expander application icon. Extract the icon into the same place where you downloaded the file. Stuffit Expander will create two items: a SIT file called Fat-Roll.sit and a folder called Fat-Roll.
4. Rename Icon
Open the Fat-Roll folder. Inside is a subdirectory called The Icons. Open that folder and you will see 3 files. The file named 'Fat-Roll' is the actual icon file. Rename it to 'Fat-Roll.icns'. If the file already has the .icns extension you can simply leave it alone.
5. Open the Icon in IconWorkshop
If files with the .icns extension are properly recognized by Windows XP, you can simply double-click to open them in IconWorkshop. If not, launch the IconWorkshop program and select Open from the File menu. Locate and open the Fat-Roll.icns file.
6. Save the Icon as a Windows .ICO File
Once Fat-Roll.icns is open, save the file into the .ico format. To do this, select Save As from the File menu and set the Type to .ico. IconWorkshop will save the icon with the alpha channels preserved, allowing for transparency effects.
That is all there is to it! Once Mac OS X icons are converted to the .ico format, they can be used in Windows like any native icon.
If you're looking for the full 128x128 pixel dimensions, continue on with the second article in this series, Using 128x128 32-bit Icons in Windows XP.