IconX 1.1

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Popularity:
#1 in Icon Tools (out of 146 products)
License:
Free to try; $10.00 to buy
Editor's Rating:
3.0 stars
Average User Rating:
3.0 stars (out of 25 votes) Rate it!
Downloads:
504,143
Requirements:
Windows 2000/XP
Limitations:
Some features disabled
Date Added:
August 04, 2005
Previous Versions:

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Publisher's description of IconX

From Stardock:

IconX turbo-charges your Windows desktop icons. It can insert shadows, make icons bigger, make icons zoom up when you mouse over them, and even change their color based on what you're doing. Version 1.1 adds the ability to change your icon text labels to have backgrounds which look nicer and add better readability.

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Editor's review of IconX

3.0 stars

More an icon-theme tweaker than an editor, IconX offers a modest set of features at an affordable price. Using the bare-bones tabbed interface, you can assign predefined themes or manually adjust icon sizes, brightness, contrast, transparency, and shadow. Other options include the ability to alter the font, size, and color of icon labels. The program can also trigger sounds and special effects on mouseover, click, and double-click events. However, the visual effects are a bit disappointing--they're just different varieties of expanding circles. Also, note that IconX can't change individual icons or create new ones. It applies tweaks to every icon at once, and the Windows Display Properties control panel provides some of this functionality already. Also, the shareware version disables animations and doesn't save changes between start-ups. However, for those who need to configure their desktops down to the last detail, IconX's $10 price shouldn't be too much to pay.

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Average user rating: 3.2 stars out of 25 votes
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4 stars

Version: IconX 1.1

"Great with Object Desktop"

by rmccabe916 on August 5, 2005

Pros: It makes desktop icons look a whole lot better.

Cons: Has a few bugs. Not really worth the price. I recommend getting Object Desktop at stardock.com because it includes this and many other programs that completely change your desktop.

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3 stars

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

Version: IconX 1.1

"What it says on the tin"

by TWAnty on April 14, 2006

Pros: It lets you fiddle with the settings individually.
There is no charge for it.
It supports many more image types than Window's normal offering.
If you download object dock then the images from that can be used, no more downloads

Cons: The icon downloading is a pain in the neck- i'll never get to grips with it
The interface is annoyingly improveable- I want to re-program it.
It doesn't automaticsly run at startup, but instead you must copy the .exe into C:\Documents and Settings\name of user\Start Menu\Programs\Startup.

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3 stars

Version: IconX 1.1

"Very nice, but not very stable"

by vikingo7 on June 27, 2008

Pros: The size and appearance

Cons: Do not work with stability in my pc

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5 stars

Version: IconX 1.1

"Love It And It Was FREE TOP Quality Kym May sydney"

Pros: Love It And It Was FREE TOP Quality Kym May sydney

Cons: Love It And It Was FREE TOP Quality Kym May sydney

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3 stars

Version: IconX 1.1

"its ammazing i like its dekstop its very good"

by abdullah ansari on January 28, 2008

Pros: this soft ware has very good dekstop and i take very less time to converted in to dekstop i assume that after installing this software my system speed also increase so i want some more skins for trail.

Cons: nothing dislike it.

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