Creating an icon with paint

• open paint
  
• press ctrl+e
  
• you will see attributes
  and in width put the value 43
  and in height put the value 43(we are making a square)
  let the unit be pixels
  and the colors may be colors
  
• click ok
  
• now create your icon
  
• after creating click on file then save as
  Write the file name and then put.ico an end (eg achutestricks.ico)
  Let the type be 24-bit Bitmap(*.bmp,*.db)
  
• Now click on save.
  
• Your icon is created