Using XP.
Downloaded ActivIcons, but cannot get any interesting icons. One site suggested that I should also download Icon Forge (or some such, costing $35), but I do not want to spend $35 to get a free ActivIcons to work.

I open ActivIcons and click on Empty Recycle Bin, to change that icon on my desktop. I Click on Change Icon and ActivIcon apparently wants a File Name and File Type. What File Name do I put in? What File Type? Suppose, hypothetically, I wanted to change the default icon from a waste basket to the picture of a cow, or pretty girl, that I found on the internet, what do I do? If I find a pretty cow and click on that image to save it, it is saved as a jpeg file, but that is not one of my File Type choices.

I have no idea how to make ActivIcon work to change my boring default icons to more interesting ones.