Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Changing Utorrent Icon on Main Window and System tray icon

I've been puzzled a few days on how to change the system tray icon of utorrent, my main purpose was to hide it so that people won't notice that I am downloading using a torrent client (Utorrent).

Just a little FAQ, Utorrent is a bittorrent client which is most commonly used for downloading movies, games, applications and other files that are shared to P2P networks around the world.

If you want to download the client. Check the link below.


http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/


Here's the mose intresting part.

Changing the System tray icon.

It seem's to be pretty hard to figure, but it really is quite simple.

Step 1.
Have two(2) icon files (.ico) ready as replacement.

Step 2.
Change the name of the first one to (main.ico), This will be shown in main window of your utorrent client.
Change the other to (tray.ico), This will be serve as your new system tray icon for your utorrent client.

Step 3.
Navigate to "%AppData%" (without the quotes). To do this, Press WIN + R then type in "%AppData%" in the run command.

Step 4.
Look for the utorrent folder and paste your icons.

There you go! you will have your own custom utorrent icon on your system tray.

NOTICE: If your utorrent still runs while doing this process, you must restart you client (not your Operating System).


Consolation:
You can create your own custom Icons from pictures or grab icons from other applications installed on your computer.


Just download and install Easy Icon Maker. Link is provided below.


http://www.icon-maker.com/


Hope this helps.

Cheers,
spawn

8 comments:

  1. There isn't any .ico files in my C:\User\AppData\Roaming\Utorrent... as i know this is the only place where utorrent stores data.. :\

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  2. Just save the icons there and make sure the filenames must be the one given above. main.ico and tray.ico, if your running your torrent exit it and re-run the application again. That should do the trick.

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  3. Thanku Takagi Fujimaru,,,,,its working,,,,cheers!!!!!!!!

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  4. Thanks a lot! I had to hide it for the same reasons you wanted to, and it worked (almost) perfectly. Main icon didn't change, but it doesn't matter :) Than you!

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  5. Have been trying to do this for ages - can't believe it was s simple!
    Thanks for this :oD

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