Vista Toolbar Icons

CNET Editors' review

by: CNET staff on November 03, 2009

Vista Toolbar Icons from icon specialist Aha-Soft promises to update your Windows Vista interface with a spiffy new look. It offers dozens of different icons executed in Vista's shiny, glassy, highlighted style. You can replace the default Vista icons with new ones that initiate the same functions, or add entirely new icons linked to new programs and features. They seem to have an icon for just about everything, and if it's not in Vista Toolbar Icons, it's probably in one of Aha-Soft's other icon packages. They do custom icons, too.

The icons that come with the free trial version of Vista Toolbar Icons are certainly well rendered, and they come in five sizes, from 16x16 (tiny) to 256x256 (extra large) and in icon, BMP, and GIF formats. Unfortunately, there are only three of them: Cut, Preview, and Burn Dustbin. They provide an image file displaying all their icons (struck through) so you can see what's available, and it's certainly a lot. But you have to buy the program to get them, and it costs $129, a pricey makeover. For the enterprise user, however, it could be an affordable way to achieve a custom look.

Vista Toolbar Icon downloads as a ZIP file but installs and uninstalls politely and cleanly. The 256-color, 32-bit icons work fine in 64-bit Vista. The icons are nicely rendered and useful, but with so many free icon programs out there, you may want to look around a bit before you plunk down serious cash on toolbar bling.

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Publisher's Description

From Aha-soft:

Vista Toolbar Icons provide a remarkable collection of stock icons carried out in Vista style. The fine-looking icon set will reshape your interface by giving it a modern and reliable view. You will feel the difference of your new interface right away as it will start looking respectable and shine with wonderfully-crafted icons, which will add credibility to your enterprise's image. Vista Toolbar Icons will benefit anyone who wants to stand out from a dull standard interface but prefer not to spend too much time on a thorough organization of the workspace. With this marvelous set of stock icons you can be sure that your interface is up-to-date and stylish, which will certainly underline the trustworthiness of any of your activities. The icons are inspiring as they look really modern showing that you keep in touch with the course of latest trends. You will appreciate that the icons are delivered in a variety of sizes, such as 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48 and in two color depth variants; they are 256 colors and 32 bit. You won't have to use any additional programs to change the parameters of icons after you purchase them, you can simply order the desirable size and color depth right away, it's convenient. Version 2009.5 added the following icons to the set: Internet application, Phone, Red phone, Telephone, Camera, Game, Check mark and Computer network.

What's new in this version: Version 2009.5 added the following icons to the set: Internet application, Phone, Red phone, Telephone, Camera, Game, Check mark and Computer network.