Vista Shortcut Overlay Manager

Vista Shortcut Overlay Manager: Customize Shortcut Icons

A free software utility to customize shortcut appearance on Windows Vista desktop, changing icons for different states like unmodified, deleted, edited.

What is Vista Shortcut Overlay Manager?

Vista Shortcut Overlay Manager is a small, free utility program for Windows Vista that gives users more control over the appearance of shortcuts on their desktop. Specifically, it allows customization of standard shortcut icons and overlay icons that indicate various states such as unmodified, deleted file, edited file, etc.

Some of the key features include:

• Easily create your own custom icons for shortcuts, or use the existing Windows icon library
• Overlay modified, deleted, edited etc icons over the base icons
• Set overrides globally or on a per-shortcut basis
• Maintain visibility of the underlying base icon
• Retains compatibility with the Windows Alt-Tab interface

It's a simple but useful way to help keep your Vista desktop organized visually. For example, you can set custom icons for different projects, color code types of documents, or make deleted/moved files more apparent at a glance. It won't modify any actual file properties, just how shortcuts to those files appear.

If you often use desktop shortcuts in Vista and want more flexibility in their appearance than the default options provide, Vista Shortcut Overlay Manager is an easy recommendation to install and try out.

Vista Shortcut Overlay Manager Features

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