# Change Application Toolbar Icon Sizes **URL:** \ **Category:** Help & Support\ **Created:** [September 13, 2022, 11:21am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/change-application-toolbar-icon-sizes/42203 "2022-09-13T11:21:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Patrick\_s13](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/patrick_s13/32/34350_2.png) [@Patrick\_s13](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Patrick_s13)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 11:21am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/change-application-toolbar-icon-sizes/42203/1 "2022-09-13T11:21:26Z")
Hi Directory Opus Forum, is it possibile to change the size of the icons on a custom applications toolbar? (all new button .exe links)? Thanks for your help. ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 11:23am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/change-application-toolbar-icon-sizes/42203/2 "2022-09-13T11:23:04Z")
It is. The exact answer depends a little on how much you want to change them. Standard "large" and "small" sizes (defined by Windows relative to your system DPI) are easy to achieve. Non-standard sizes are possible, but take extra effort. ---
**Author:** ![Patrick\_s13](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/patrick_s13/32/34350_2.png) [@Patrick\_s13](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Patrick_s13)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/change-application-toolbar-icon-sizes/42203/3 "2022-09-13T13:18:37Z")
Hi Leo, thanks for your reply. Yes, I would like to use non-standard sizes. How can I do that? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/change-application-toolbar-icon-sizes/42203/4 "2022-09-13T13:21:47Z")
Turn off **Preferences / Toolbars / Appearance / Scale Toolbar button images when larger than standard size** and then provide the images in the size you want, in PNG format. If there are a lot of them, turning them into an Icon Set can improve startup performance as it avoids having to load all the images separately. (When using icon resources, this also avoids antivirus scanning all the exe/dll files if loading icons out of them.) ---
**Author:** ![Patrick\_s13](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/patrick_s13/32/34350_2.png) [@Patrick\_s13](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Patrick_s13)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/change-application-toolbar-icon-sizes/42203/5 "2022-09-13T13:26:46Z")
Ok, got it. But I would like to use the default icons for each program. Is there a way to make DO automatically scale those to a specified size? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/change-application-toolbar-icon-sizes/42203/6 "2022-09-13T13:28:25Z")
If you want something other than the standard Windows icon sizes, you'll need to extract the images to PNG files to use them on toobars. A tool like Icon Workshop can do it. (Probably others, too, but that's the one I tend to use for icon stuff.) ---
**Author:** ![Patrick\_s13](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/patrick_s13/32/34350_2.png) [@Patrick\_s13](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Patrick_s13)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/change-application-toolbar-icon-sizes/42203/7 "2022-09-13T20:01:26Z")
Ok, I see. Lets say I carefully extract all the icons in .png format and click on every button edit and import the correct image (that's the way to go if I got it correctly). How do I change the size once I imported my .png images? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/change-application-toolbar-icon-sizes/42203/8 "2022-09-13T22:21:42Z")
It'll use whatever size the PNG images are. You can resize them using Opus's image conversion tool, or any other graphics software. ---
**Author:** ![galaxyhub](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/galaxyhub/32/42793_2.png) [@galaxyhub](https://resource.dopus.com/u/galaxyhub)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 6:05am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/change-application-toolbar-icon-sizes/42203/9 "2022-09-14T06:05:20Z")
Here are individual 32x32 png files of the internal icons [InternalPNG.zip](https://resource.dopus.com/uploads/short-url/oPBUMkDYRHbOsZAH2WzNPZT3HOg.zip) (211.5 KB) and here is a link to a button in the Icons forum that can convert the png files to an iconset of any size (just follow instructions) [Iconset Maker v2 - Icons - Directory Opus Resource Centre (dopus.com)](https://resource.dopus.com/t/iconset-maker-v2/42158) ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 7:02am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/change-application-toolbar-icon-sizes/42203/10 "2022-09-14T07:02:31Z")
My assumption is we’re talking about icons for other programs, not the Opus icons. There are easier ways to make the internal toolbar icons different sizes and it doesn’t require the PNGs, just some XML. ---
**Author:** ![Patrick\_s13](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/patrick_s13/32/34350_2.png) [@Patrick\_s13](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Patrick_s13)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/change-application-toolbar-icon-sizes/42203/11 "2022-09-14T08:18:29Z")
Yes, correct. I was talking about the icons for other programs, not the internal Opus icons. I thought there was some way to specify the sizes using configuration files, otherwise it is tricky to do if u have, for example, lots of icons, or need to add icons, or need to resize all the icons at once.