![]() Interestingly in Windows Explorer the icon looks great even when using the Extra Large Icon setting. I have tried removing the 128x128 icon but to no avail. ico file that contains the multi-resolution icon) (I am using Windows 7 - 64 bit - the icon is placed by means of setting up a shortcut in the msi (created via Visual Studio 2008 Setup Project) and pointing it to the. The icon is provided in 16x16, 24x24, 32x32,48x48, 128x128 and 256x256 (!) (all in 32 bit including alpha channel) yet Windows seems to use the 48x48 version of the icon on the desktop and scale it up which looks terrible. I have created a multi-resolution icon with the icon editor IcoFX. ![]() I want to give my application a high quality icon and can't seem to convince Windows to use the higher resolution icon. ![]() I suspect that most icons look blurry because a lower resolution icon is scaled up rather than using a higher resolution icon. ![]() Even some high profile application icons such as Google Chrome look terrible while Firefox, Skype and MS Office icons look sharp: If you are running Windows with a higher DPI setting you will notice that most application icons on the desktop look terrible.
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