ViCon Remastered: Get Windows Vista and 7’s Desktop Icon Mouse Hover Effect in Windows XP

In Windows Vista and 7 whenever you hover your mouse cursor over a Desktop icon, it shows a cool transparent rectangle over the icon. This kind of behavior is not found in XP but many XP users want this awesome effect in their OS.

Today we are going to share an awesome free tool which brings this cool mouse hover effect to XP.

“ViCon Remastered” is an excellent tool which allows you to put your desired icons at Desktop and provides the Vista and 7’s mouse hover effect for them.

You just need to run the tool and it shows following interface:

You can also bring the above window by right-clicking on its System tray icon and select Settings option.

Four ready-made Desktop icons are already given to choose: Computer, Documents, Network and Recycle Bin which are the default Windows icons.

You can simply click on their respective buttons and then OK button to add them on Desktop. Once the icons are created at Desktop, all the icons will have the cool mouse hover effect just like Windows Vista and 7:

If you don’t want to show the Windows default Desktop icons which don’t have mouse hover rectangle, you can disable them by right-clicking on Desktop and uncheck “Arrange Icons By -> Show Desktop Icons” option.

If you want, you can add more desired icons at Desktop by clicking on the “Add” button in ViCon Settings window and select the path of your desired program’s EXE file.

You can download it using following link:

Download Link

UPDATE: The official download link is no longer working. It seems the developer has discontinued the software.

If you want to completely transform your Windows XP into Vista including theme, boot screen, login screen, icons, etc, please follow following tutorial:

Transform Windows XP into Windows Vista without using Customization Pack

And to transform XP into Windows 7, visit following tutorial:

Transform Windows XP into Windows 7 without using Customization Pack