Every month we take a look around some of the most interesting windows-related web sites. We collect the best free stuff and write tips to help you get more out of Windows. Below you’ll find wallpapers, icon packs, fonts, screensavers, and freeware we’ve found over the last 30 days. We’ve also put together our most popular windows guides.

Enjoy the overview of stuff you shouldn’t have missed in September 2009

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Read the rest of Best Windows Freebies and Guides 18 [September 2009]

A collection of desktop wallpapers for Windows, OS X, and Linux. If you have wallpapers you’ve made yourself or if you have any suggestions, leave them in the comments or contact me.

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Read the rest of Free Desktop Wallpaper Showcase: Set 60

Every month we take a look around some of the most interesting windows-related web sites. We collect the best free stuff and write tips to help you get more out of Windows. Below you’ll find wallpapers, icon packs, fonts, screensavers, and freeware we’ve found over the last 31 days. We’ve also put together our most popular windows guides.

Enjoy the overview of stuff you shouldn’t have missed in May 2009

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Read the rest of Best Windows Freebies and Guides 14 [May 2009]

A round up of the best icon packs on the web. Full credit goes to the image authors. Let us know about any others you really like!

Want More Icons?

Check out more icon collections on Mintywhite.com or learn how to use these on a dock in Windows.

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Read the rest of 20 Free Mac/Windows Icon Packs [Set 07] PNG/ICO

Here at mintywhite.com, we love Icon Packs. In this collection, I’ve picked 57 new packs and included 54 of my favorite packs already featured here on the site. Enjoy these packs and please feel free to suggest some more.

If you want more icons, head to the icon pack collections.

As with all packs listed on this site, please refer to the linked site to view copyright information or get in contact with the artist who created the icons. If you created one of these packs and want to change anything on here, please contact me.

iPhone style sidebar icon

80 Mini iPhone Application Style Icons in .PNG format (16×16)

Mod’em

1 PNG Icon (256×256 and 512×512)

Splashy Icons

464 Icons in PNG format (16×16)

MNM’s

“7 Icons in .ICO and .PNG Format (16×16, 32×32, 128×128, 256×256 & 512×512)”

Desktop Icons

5 Icons in .ICO and .PNG Format (256×256)

Letter icons

4 Icons in .ICO format (256×256)

Driver

18 Icons in .PNG format (512×512)

XIII

“21 Icons in .ICO and .PNG Format (16×16, 32×32, 128×128, 256×256 & 512×512)”

I like buttons 3a

26 PNG Icons (512×512)

Baggy Icon Set

“5 Icons in .ICO and .PNG Format (16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 128×128, 256×256 & 512×512)”

Round Theme Icons

106 iPhone Application style icons. PNG Format 59×60

Playground

9 Icons in PNG format (256×256)

OldSchool Icon Set

“6 Icons in .ICO and .PNG Format (16×16, 32×32, 128×128, 256×256 & 512×512)”

Container Icon Pack

“Container Icon Pack contains 40 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats. This package includes: Box Icons, Cargo Icons, Trash Icon and more…”

Fugue Icons

“1,600 icons in PNG format (16×16 )”

web 2.0 RSS icons

“28 icons (orange, green, blue, gray) in .ico, .icns, .tif, .png, .psd formats (32×32, 16×16)”

Vaga

60 semi-transparent .png icons (16 x 16)

Icons: Systematrix Full

“28 PNG icons (16×16, 32×32, 64×64, 128×128, 256×256)”

Developpers Icons

105 icons (32×32)

Monitor HP

“1 PNG Icon (128×128, 256×256 and 512×512)”

Cats4 HDD (Beta)

7 Icons in .ICO format (256×256)

Red Moleskine

“One Icon in (16×16, 32×32, 128×128 & 256×256)”

Enjoyment v.1

“4 Icons in .png, .ico, .icns, .tif, .gif, .bmp, and .psd formats (256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32)”

Ive Drives

These hard drive icons are inspired by beautiful Apple hardware designed and crafted by Jony Ive and the Apple Industrial Design Group. Available in four styles of familiar Apple hardware:

Simply Safari Icon

“1 Icon in .ICO and .PNG formats (16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 128×128, 256×256 & 512×512)”

Nurture Social Icon Set

“Includes 10 icons featuring the logos of popular social bookmarking sites. The set was designed with a fresh, lively, green look in mind. The pack includes 512×512, 256×256, 128×128, and 64×64 icons in .png format.”

Zero

21 folder replacement icons beaming holographic images at the speed of light. Your desktop will never be the same. The collection includes resources for both Vista and Leopard. ((512×512 256×256 128×128 48×48 32×32 16×16))

Snow

“102 royalty free website & GUI icons in TIFF, ICNS, ICO, ICON & PNG formats that can be used for both personal and commercial purposes (32×32)”

Smashing Retro Icon Set

10 Icons in .PNG and .ICO format (128×128 & 512×512)

“Handycons – a free, hand drawn social media icon set “

“Hand drawn social media icon set that contains 12 icons. Package contains icons for del.icio.us, Digg, Mixx, DesignBump, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Developer Zone, DesignFloat, Technorati, Twitter and RSS feed & Email icon, of course. All icons are available in four sizes: 16×16, 24×24, 32×32 and 48×48 pixels.”

Book icons

30 Icons in .ICO format (256×256)

Valentine’s Day

2 Icons in PNG format (256×256)

“VLC, glassy icon”

1 Icons in PNG format (512×512 & 1024×1024)

Handycons 2 – another free hand drawn icon set

“Icon set containing 20 more hand drawn icons. This time it is not limited just to socail media related icons. Package contains Facebook, Blinklist, Feedburner, Flickr, FriendFeed, Furl, Gmail, Google, Heart icon, Last FM, Linked IN, Magnolia, Newsvine, PayPal, Skype, Sphinn, Twitter, Vimeo, Yahoo and You Tube icons. All icons come in four sizes: 16×16, 32×32, 64×64 and 12×128px.”

Hydropro Icon Pack

50 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats.

Vistaico Aero Pack

135 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats.

Computer Hardware

9 Icons in all sizes in PNG and ICO formats

Must Have Icon Set

59 Icons in all sizes in PNG and ICO formats

Social 2 Duo

The world’s first social networking icons with integrated dual core technology guaranteed to enhance the performance of your applications or blog. Package contains 10 Royalty Free icons that can be used for personal and commercial purposes (128×128 48×48 32×32 16×16)

IconTexto WebDev

“30 icons in formats PNG (128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16) and ICO (128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16).”

Mug icons

9 Icons in .ICO format (256×256)

Crysigns

25 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats.

Galactica

9 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats

Travel

10 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats

Pool Icons

6 Icons (128×128)

Closed Note icons

11 Icons in .ICO format (256×256)

Pioneer Camp

“6 Icons (128×128, 64×64, 48×48, 32×32)”

Aurora Folders

“16 icons in formats PNG (256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16), ICO (256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16) and ICNS (256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16).”

Mountain Bike

“6 icons in formats PNG (512×512, 256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16) and ICO (256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16). Based on mountain bike sport theme.”

Musto Icon Pack

105 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats.

Coffee cup icons

8 Icons in .ICO format (256×256)

My Fav Buttons

5 replacement icons to to customize your favorite folders.

Leopard iPhone Icons

18 replacement icons of Mac OS X Leopard Folders in iPhone Icons Style

IconTexto Brasil

“2 icons in formats PNG (512×512, 256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16), ICO (256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16) and ICL (128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16).”

Deli Pack 1.0 and 2.0

“Icons in .PNG formats (16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 63×63, 128×128 & 256×256)”

Animals

6 Icons in all sizes in PNG and ICO formats

Mailplane icons

4 Icons in .ICO format (256×256)

Older Icon Sets I Really Like

If you are a regular reader of Windows Guides, you may have seen these sets before, but I really like them, so here they are:

Open Phone Pack

iPhone Icon Pack

Animals

Dinosaurs

Vista Style

Air Icons

Radium Nue Pack

Poisson Pack

Aqua Value Pack

iVista icon pack

Black and Blue

More Black and Blue

SNOW.E 2 XP

Windows Icons V1

Q’s Vista Ready Icons

CEM Icon Pack

Misto Icon Pack

Affel Icon Pack

Old School Icons

Aeon Icon Pack

Pure Icon Pack

Flat Panel Icons

Green Icon Set

Simplistica

Niome Icon Pack

Radium Neue

Antares

Aire

The City

Vista Style

Airicons

Poisson

Autumn Breeze

Crystal B&W

Oxygen

Google and Facebook

iMac

Pixel Press

Aesthetica Icon Set

Coquette

Coquette Part 2

Classy Icon Set

Stickers Icon Set

Ruby Extended Icons

iTunes

TextEdit

Air Mail

Slick Drives

iFirefox

NES Icons Pack

Stacks Dock Icons

stock icons

DeskMundo Live Icons

Aquanox mini Icon Set

Well, that’s all for now. Subscribe to keep updated on new packs.

Further Reading

• Best Windows Freebies and Guides 14 [May 2009]
• Best Windows Freebies and Guides 18 [September 2009]
• Best Windows Freebies and Guides 17 [August 2009]
• 90 Free High Quality Icon Packs [Set 1]
• Free Mac/Windows/Linux Icon Packs [Set 16] PNG/ICO

I just went through a bunch of my old OS discs and extracted the boot sounds; I want to share them with you. Some of these sounds really take me back. Do you have any you want to share? Here is what I have so far:

Thanks to Hunky Dork and Harry who contributed some more audio clips.

Boot/Logon Sounds

	Windows 3.1
	Windows 95
	Windows 98
	Windows NT
	Windows 2000 (Thanks Harry)
	Windows XP (Thanks Hunky Dork & Hary)
	Windows Vista (”Longhorn Beta”)
	Windows Vista (Thanks Harry)
	Sega Dreamcast
	Apple II C
	Mac II

Further Reading

• Best Windows Freebies and Guides 14 [May 2009]
• XdN Tweaker Customizes Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista, and 7
• 41 Windows Vista Custom Desktop Theme Packs
• Install Custom Desktop Themes in Windows Vista/Server 2008 [How To]
• How To Series: Windows Desktop Theme Customization

A round up of the best wallpapers on the web. Full credit goes to the image authors. Let us know about any others you really like!

Want More Wallpaper?

Check out more wallpapers in the the Wallpaper section of this site or learn how to use these wallpapers for your login screen too!

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Read the rest of Free Desktop Wallpaper Showcase: Set 29

Windows Forums member, MSherwood spent seven days using Windows 7 and nothing else. In this two-part series, he shares his impressions, likes, dislikes, and recommendations for Windows 7. The second part of this series covers program installation and feature exploration.

Check the first of this two-part series.

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Read the rest of Seven Days with Windows 7: Making it Functional

Every month we take a look around some of the most interesting windows-related web sites. We collect the best free stuff and write tips to help you get more out of Windows. Below you’ll find wallpapers, icon packs, fonts, screensavers, and freeware we’ve found over the last 30 days. We’ve also put together our most popular windows guides.

Enjoy the overview of stuff you shouldn’t have missed in January 2009

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Read the rest of Best Windows Freebies and Guides 10 [January 2009]

A round up of the best icon packs on the web. Full credit goes to the image authors. Let us know about any others you really like!

Want More Icons?

Check out more icon collections on Mintywhite.com or learn how to use these on a dock in Windows.

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Read the rest of 20 Free Mac/Windows Icon Packs [Set 02] PNG/ICO