List of WindowsXP Icons

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Hopefully this is the right place to post these questions.

I am a novice iconeer and am in the process of beginning to develop my first theme. However, I am sort of lost when it comes to the icons for the theme. So it prompts me to ask the following questions.

1. Is there a list posted somewhere on this site or on the net that has a listing of all the icons contained in an IconPackager package for WindowsXP?
2. I have seen the icons listed by name, and number and am wondering -- which is considered correct?
3. Ho many icons should an Icon Package contain in order to be considered complete?

I've seen the icon tutorials contained on this site, and they have been a great help to me in understanding the various types of icons that need to be created.

Any additional information anyone can supply concerning the above questions would be greatly appreciated.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That's a good question, Ive seen IP themes with widely varying numbers of icons.
If I understand part of your question, you mean the index 'list' that windows
assigns the system icons by, I've seen some icon sets that are numbered and had to
make the IP by hand.
As for quantity - a basic set has the desktop(6), start menu(5), folders (23), drives (8), shortcut/sharing/networking (8), after all that you're up around 50 icons, depending. Many icon sets don't include icons for each and every system icon, but if I find a set I really like and they're not all covered I feel short-changed
The biggest variable is the file types, which can run into dozens, depending on how determined the icon artist is. I've downloaded some killer icon sets from Deviant Art and had to manually enter ridiculous numbers of icons into a set. GANT 3 is a good example of going to the extreme in covering every file type known to man. Then theres DocUniumXP file type set by Cyril Seillet(rimshotdesign.com), which towers over a hundred icons. That gets to be annoying after assigning 70 or 80 icons to a set, and your arm's cramping up....
Anyway, the standard filetypes sets usually cover the 4-5 basic image files, document & text files, a few system/config/ini type stuff, maybe html/url, media (mp3/mov/avi,that sort of thing-although you could go nuts in there with all the flavors), maybe throw in MS Office files (ppt, xls, word), with those I'm guessing most folks would be happy, but we're all over the map with individual preferences here I'm sure so hopefully some other folks can weigh in & give their 2 cents worth. BTW-you been checking out the Icon-A-Day thing?
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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That didn't sound right....Clarify: a stab at miking icons...
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