How does one change the icon for Irfanview?

How does one change the icon that shows up for something like Irfanview
when you have it in snapshot mode?

When I take snapshots of the screen in Irfanview, Irfanview must be running
but it has the tell-tale red sunbirst icon in the task bar.

I'd like to change that icon to something like the firefox or outlook or
Internet Explorer icon so others can't tell I'm taking snapshots of the
screen.

How would one CHANGE the ICON for Irfanview?

I tried right-clicking on the shortcut and on the executable but that
didn't change the icon.

What's the trick to change the icon of a running program in the task bar?

Philip Peters wrote:
> How does one change the icon for Irfanview?
>
> How does one change the icon that shows up for something like Irfanview
> when you have it in snapshot mode?
>
> When I take snapshots of the screen in Irfanview, Irfanview must be running
> but it has the tell-tale red sunbirst icon in the task bar.
>
> I'd like to change that icon to something like the firefox or outlook or
> Internet Explorer icon so others can't tell I'm taking snapshots of the
> screen.
>
> How would one CHANGE the ICON for Irfanview?
>
> I tried right-clicking on the shortcut and on the executable but that
> didn't change the icon.
>
> What's the trick to change the icon of a running program in the task bar?

Why don't you just use PrintScreen to do your screen capture, THEN start
IrfanView and paste the snapshot into it?

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:17:38 -0700, Philip Peters
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>How does one change the icon for Irfanview?
>
>How does one change the icon that shows up for something like Irfanview
>when you have it in snapshot mode?
>
>When I take snapshots of the screen in Irfanview, Irfanview must be running
>but it has the tell-tale red sunbirst icon in the task bar.
>
>I'd like to change that icon to something like the firefox or outlook or
>Internet Explorer icon so others can't tell I'm taking snapshots of the
>screen.
>
>How would one CHANGE the ICON for Irfanview?
>
>I tried right-clicking on the shortcut and on the executable but that
>didn't change the icon.
>
>What's the trick to change the icon of a running program in the task bar?

You can start by not crossposting.

You sound a bit fishy.

On Aug 28, 7:17 am, Philip Peters <r_we...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> How does one change the icon for Irfanview?
>
> How does one change the icon that shows up for something like Irfanview
> when you have it in snapshot mode?

Open Irfanview, go to Properties-Extensions and click on
Miscellaneous.

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Rodney

On Tue 28 Aug 2007 06:17:38, Philip Peters <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in alt.comp.freeware:

> How does one change the icon for Irfanview?
>
> How does one change the icon that shows up for something like
> Irfanview when you have it in snapshot mode?
>
> When I take snapshots of the screen in Irfanview, Irfanview must be
> running but it has the tell-tale red sunbirst icon in the task bar.
>
> I'd like to change that icon to something like the firefox or
> outlook or Internet Explorer icon so others can't tell I'm taking
> snapshots of the screen.
>
> How would one CHANGE the ICON for Irfanview?
>
> I tried right-clicking on the shortcut and on the executable but
> that didn't change the icon.
>
> What's the trick to change the icon of a running program in the
> task bar?


A resource editor can change taskbar icons in an executable.

However Irfanview is compressed so the freeware editors I checked
(Resource hacker and Exescope) couldn't access its icons.

Philip Peters wrote:
>
> When I take snapshots of the screen in Irfanview, Irfanview must be running
> but it has the tell-tale red sunbirst icon in the task bar.

It's not a sunburst. It's a CAT. ( You know,
a Kitty).

Look here: > http://irfanview-online.com/vb/

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:17:38 -0700, Philip Peters <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>How does one change the icon for Irfanview?
>
>How does one change the icon that shows up for something like Irfanview
>when you have it in snapshot mode?
>
>When I take snapshots of the screen in Irfanview, Irfanview must be running
>but it has the tell-tale red sunbirst icon in the task bar.
>
>I'd like to change that icon to something like the firefox or outlook or
>Internet Explorer icon so others can't tell I'm taking snapshots of the
>screen.
>
>How would one CHANGE the ICON for Irfanview?
>
>I tried right-clicking on the shortcut and on the executable but that
>didn't change the icon.
>
>What's the trick to change the icon of a running program in the task bar?

Use the PrtScr/SysRq key to put the screen on the clipboard.

Open IrfanView, do Edit|Paste, trim the screen picture as required by
cutting out only the original screen.

Do Paste again, then Save as ... to store the picture.

That way you will not have an IrfanView icon in the picture.

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Franklin wrote:

> A resource editor can change taskbar icons in an executable.
>
> However Irfanview is compressed so the freeware editors I checked
> (Resource hacker and Exescope) couldn't access its icons.
>
>

Decompress:

upx -d i_view32.exe

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"Philip Peters" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4eOAi.439$(E-Mail Removed)...
> How does one change the icon for Irfanview?
>
> How does one change the icon that shows up for something like
> Irfanview
> when you have it in snapshot mode?
>
> When I take snapshots of the screen in Irfanview, Irfanview must be
> running
> but it has the tell-tale red sunbirst icon in the task bar.
>
> I'd like to change that icon to something like the firefox or outlook
> or
> Internet Explorer icon so others can't tell I'm taking snapshots of
> the
> screen.
>
> How would one CHANGE the ICON for Irfanview?
>
> I tried right-clicking on the shortcut and on the executable but that
> didn't change the icon.
>
> What's the trick to change the icon of a running program in the task
> bar?

The simple way is the standard Windows way which gives you a selection
of 11 icons(in the case of Irfanview).

Right click on the icon, press Properties, press CHANGE ICON, select
from 11 choices, OK.

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John G.



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Ed Mc wrote:
> Philip Peters wrote:
>>
>> When I take snapshots of the screen in Irfanview, Irfanview must be
>> running
>> but it has the tell-tale red sunbirst icon in the task bar.
>
> It's not a sunburst. It's a CAT. ( You know, a Kitty).
>
> Look here: > http://irfanview-online.com/vb/
>
>
>
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>
>
>
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It's a cat run over by a car. Some might find that unpleasant. If it
were easy to change, I would, but I'm not going to obsess over it.