There are various ways you can personalise and spruce up your copy of Windows Vista. You can change your desktop background, the window colour scheme , add a few gadgets and more. However, you can go far further than this. For instance, you can install a third-party theme or customise and change the icons on your desktop. Either find and download icons provided by icon artists, or design your own.

Creating your own icon is relatively easy. It’s made easier if you can source an image or an existing icon that you wish to edit or enhance. To do this, you need a specialist icon editor and one that enables you to produce icons for Vista.

Sib Icon Editor is an ex-commercial editor that has now gone freeware. You can use this to design high-quality icons, with transparency, 32-bit colour depth icons for Vista and more.