# IE animation icon **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 20, 2001, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animation-icon/88614 "2001-10-20T19:12:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animation-icon/88614/1 "2001-10-20T19:12:59Z")
Up in the top corner is a neat little animation icon that is activated when you are browsing, refreshing, etc. Is it possible to replace that with one created myself? ---
**Author:** ![Cargogal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@Cargogal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cargogal)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animation-icon/88614/2 "2001-10-20T19:39:27Z")
If you have AOL (eek!), it gets replaced with the AOL icon. I can’t figure out how to do it, though (I now have IE6, though, so the look is very different). ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animation-icon/88614/3 "2001-10-20T22:02:29Z")
That’s just the thing. I have AOL and it is the icon. When I DLed IE 6 it was still there. I was browsing through my folders and hoped I’d find it to try and replace it but no go… ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animation-icon/88614/4 "2001-10-21T00:25:07Z")
Try the [Internet Explorer Personalizer version 3.00](http://accesscodes.hypermart.net/download.html) I used one of the included bitmaps for the logo but you should be able to use your own. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animation-icon/88614/5 "2001-10-21T00:35:08Z")
The personalizer seems to me to be a large-assed file. When I went to check it out it was something like three megs in size. Can that be right for such a simple edit app? What else is it doing? ---
**Author:** ![pmh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@pmh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmh)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animation-icon/88614/6 "2001-10-21T01:57:52Z")
For IE 5.5, There are 2 bitmaps used. The non-animated one is located at the path named in the registry key: HKEY\_CURRENT\_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar under the value “SmallBitmap” for 26x26 pixels, or “BigBitmap” for 38x38 pixels. The animated one’s path is in the same key under the value “BrandBitmap”. It should be 26 or 38 pixels wide and as tall as needed to contain the number of “frames” you want to display. The top 4 frames are displayed when browsing starts, and frames 5 through the end are rotated until browsing stops. IIRC, the number of frames must be even and greater than 12. ---
**Author:** ![Greenkeys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dec6dc/32.png) [@Greenkeys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenkeys)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animation-icon/88614/7 "2001-10-21T02:17:49Z")
Of course you shouldn’t be poking around in the registry unless you REALLY know what you’re doing! But we all knew that, right?.. \ I can see the new post now: “Help, PC Problem!” ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animation-icon/88614/8 "2001-10-22T03:29:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CnoteChris \* > \*\*The personalizer seems to me to be a large-assed file. When I went to check it out it was something like three megs in size. > > Can that be right for such a simple edit app? What else is it doing? \*\* It includes a bunch of bitmap logos so I guess that contributes to the size. I haven’t noticed any problems since using it that one time. I ran [Ad-Aware](http://www.lavasoftusa.com/) after I installed it a few months ago (just in case) but I don’t remember if it found anything. OK, I just re-installed it and ran Ad-Aware again and it didn’t find anything. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-animation-icon/88614/9 "2001-10-22T11:17:28Z")
Thanks. I assumed it was safe, but you never know these days.