Changing Icon for an exe

[Guest]

Hello
I'm trying to change the icon for an exe - I thought it would be as simple as changing the App.ico. However the problem appears to be that when I open the App.ico with paint, I see one image, but when I open it up with IE, I see another (this is the image that the exe uses). I don't know why the two apps give different results. The problem is that the exe will not used the "edited" version (what I open in paint)

Can anyone tell me how to change the icon for an exe - what else do I need to do besides edit the App.ico file

Thanks
Larry

 

[Adam W Root]

You need a icon editing program. Icon files are resource files that may
contain several bitmap images. You may have a 16 color 16x16 icon and a 16
color 32x32 icon both in the same file. Then Windows decides which one to
display depending on the size it prefers and what is available.

Paint doesn't REALLY know how to manage icon files.

Adam

Hello,
I'm trying to change the icon for an exe - I thought it would be as

simple as changing the App.ico. However the problem appears to be that when
I open the App.ico with paint, I see one image, but when I open it up with
IE, I see another (this is the image that the exe uses). I don't know why
the two apps give different results. The problem is that the exe will not
used the "edited" version (what I open in paint).

Can anyone tell me how to change the icon for an exe - what else do I need

to do besides edit the App.ico file?

 

[Guest]

Thanks
That makes sense

Larr

----- Adam W Root wrote: ----

You need a icon editing program. Icon files are resource files that ma
contain several bitmap images. You may have a 16 color 16x16 icon and a 1
color 32x32 icon both in the same file. Then Windows decides which one t
display depending on the size it prefers and what is available

Paint doesn't REALLY know how to manage icon files

Ada

Hello
I'm trying to change the icon for an exe - I thought it would be a

simple as changing the App.ico. However the problem appears to be that whe
I open the App.ico with paint, I see one image, but when I open it up wit
IE, I see another (this is the image that the exe uses). I don't know wh
the two apps give different results. The problem is that the exe will no
used the "edited" version (what I open in paint)

 

[boudino]

You can also simply edit icons in VisualStudion. In VS, you can delete the bad one image from App.ico and than right icon will be displayed

Petr