title: Best practice for application-icon in windows
body: <p>So far I had "designed" my app-icon in the Visual-Studio-Editor. 16-Colors, 4kB.
  Now someone created a more sophisticated and up-to-date app-icon for me, which results in a filesize of about 250kB. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Problem:</strong> A user reported, that win2000 is complaining, because it is not able to digest this amount of data for an icon.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Question:</strong> What can be regarded as <em>best practice for application-icons</em>. In detail: which resolutions and which color-depth-variations should be contained in an icon?</p>