Re: Is there a way...

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

JustThisGuyYouKnow wrote:

> Can one change the icon associated with a program, not just the
> shortcut or file extention icon, but with the exe program itself?

Only with a resource editor. The icon is embedded within the exe. You
would need a tool that could open the exe, edit the resources, and save
the updated icon resource back to the exe without corrupting the
executable.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Import exeutable icon
    ... To add icon to application you need to add ICON ... Shell by default reads first ICON resource ... Following the doc I managed to import an exe to my VC ... as a .exe file. ...
    (microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel)
  • Re: Icon not shown?
    ... the icon shows ok at the development ... Sounds to me the resource is ... >>somehow not built into the executable. ... > You can check your idea by loading the EXE file into ...
    (microsoft.public.vc.language)
  • Re: Insert an Icon Into a FRX
    ... A least one icon needs to be part of an frx so that the exe will have ... Plan is to keep a customer database which will contain the 'exe' name and ... Actually this looks like a fun problem, but I'm a database guy ...
    (microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion)
  • Re: MS Vista Issues
    ... Vista seems to prohibit the main process EXE from extracting an ICON resource from another EXE. ... The ExtractIcon() is not returning an error but it is also not returning the resource either. ... The special EXE update zip file was distributed to hosting customers so that their users can get automatically updated when they click the icon to start it. ...
    (microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel)
  • Re: Getting started with Icons?
    ... I was hacking the default view for the System Browser - and figured the Icon ... > (with the current program's .EXE as a special case of that). ... > DLL. ... > correspondingly named icon resource in an instance of ExternalLibrary. ...
    (comp.lang.smalltalk.dolphin)