tweeps against tweetdeck icon (windows tutorial)

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As promised, here is the tutorial on how to change your TweetDeck icon for Windows users.

This tutorial will only change your desktop and start menu icons.

I’m still researching whether it is possible to change the actual application/window icon that usually appears in the top-most left-hand corner of the window.  The process is not as simple as replacing an icon in Mac OS X and may involve re-compiling the application itself.

For now, this will at least change it on your desktop and on the start menu (which are the biggest icons anyway!).

Before you begin, you will need to download a trial of Icon Processor

1. Save one of the images below for your new TweetDeck icon.

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2. Launch Icon Processor and click “OK”

3. Select “Add Files”

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4. Find the icon you’ve choosen to use as your TweetDeck Icon and select “OPEN”.

open tweeps against tweetdeck icon (windows tutorial)

5. Select “NEXT”

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6. Select the settings below and then choose where you’d like to save your file.

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7. Select “As is” and then “Next”

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8. Select “Save”

save tweeps against tweetdeck icon (windows tutorial)

9. Close out of Icon Processor.

10. Go to the Start Menu, then Programs

11. Find TweetDeck and perform a right click

12. Select “Properties”

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13. Select “Change Icon”

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14. Locate the icon you saved using Icon Processor.

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15. Select “OK”

16. Then “Apply” changes

17. Select “continue” when prompted by the User Access Control prompt in order to save the icon change.

18. That’s all!

I’ll be back with an update soon as I’m still finding free ways to change the taskbar icon (the icon next to the clock).  Alex from TechNest Report is also working on a video tutorial which I will post here as soon as he’s finished with it.

April 11, 2009

4 responses to tweeps against tweetdeck icon (windows tutorial)

  1. Matthew said:

    Ok I will wait until you have a tutorial on how to change taskbar icon and the icon on the actual program itself

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  4. happyagain said:

    Lizettegagne, since you have converted the above images into *.Icon or *.ico format for windows, can please be so kind to link or post those. Be a dear, you can also zip them and post them right next to the images above.

    Thank you.:)

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