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I found this mickey mouse head that I would like to set as my classic shell start button in windows 8. However, I have tried for the last 12 hours to get it to work and it just doesn't. Here is the file.

Any Start button shouldn't be a single image but must contains 3 states - hot, hover and pressed states. Like this:

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Links to some general topics:

● Compare Start Menus

● Read the Search box usage guide.

I am a Windows enthusiast and helped a little with Classic Shell's testing and usability/UX feedback.

Okay...what program is easy enough for me to understand and follow that I can make this happen?? I'm using Windows 8.

You might find Stardock's Start button creation tool easy: http://stardock.cachefly.net/Start8BtnEditor.zip. If you are comfortable with graphics editing, use any free editor like Paint.net or GIMP and create 3 states of the image, on top of each other, save the image as a PNG.

Once you assign the button from Classic Start Menu Settings, go to the "Start Button" tab where you can change the size to make it fit your taskbar's height.

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Links to some general topics:

● Compare Start Menus

● Read the Search box usage guide.

I am a Windows enthusiast and helped a little with Classic Shell's testing and usability/UX feedback.

I'll make it for ya. it's easy enough. Especially since I use GIMP 2 for making start buttons.

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"A book is a mirror. If an ass peers into it, it doesn't expect an apostle to peer out." - E.M. Forster

Okay, here it is. I hope you like it.

To download it, just right click it and save it to whichever folder you use for your start button images.

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"A book is a mirror. If an ass peers into it, it doesn't expect an apostle to peer out." - E.M. Forster

Oh my gosh!! Thank you ever sooo much!! I set it to size 75 and it is perfect!!

You're very welcome. I'm glad you like it.

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"A book is a mirror. If an ass peers into it, it doesn't expect an apostle to peer out." - E.M. Forster

I love this!! I had to use size 50 for it to work with my machine but it looks awesome! I wonder... Should I want to make mu own, do I do it in any size (bmp) and just change the size in the program settings as I did for this one?

Yea it can be any size .bmp just remember that the skin will be cut into 3 even horizontal slices..
Also a really large .bmp takes up more ram to use (this one takes 350kb) not a huge deal until you start getting into really high resolutions, or on really old systems