How to change the icon of Irfanview in the taskbar when it's running

[Philip Peters]

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?

 

[Matt Ion]

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?

 

[WaIIy]

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.

 

[rodney.usenet]

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.

 

[Franklin]

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.

 

[Ed Mc]

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/

 

[Cheemag]

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.

 

[Guy]

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

 

[John G]

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.

 

[Ron Hunter]

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

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

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.

 

[Philip Peters]

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

Because Irfanview can take any number of snapshots on demand while print
screen can only capture one (and because printscreen creates clip files
instead of JPG or GIF files) and because Irfanview can be set to take a
snapshot surrepticiously every x seconds.

I don't think printscreen can do any of that
- take multiple snapshots
- generate jpg or gif files
- automatically snapshot every 5 seconds

Can it?

 

[Matt Ion]

Because Irfanview can take any number of snapshots on demand while print
screen can only capture one (and because printscreen creates clip files
instead of JPG or GIF files) and because Irfanview can be set to take a
snapshot surrepticiously every x seconds.

I don't think printscreen can do any of that
- take multiple snapshots
- generate jpg or gif files
- automatically snapshot every 5 seconds

Can it?

No... but then you didn't ask for any of that in your original post.

 

[Cheemag]

Because Irfanview can take any number of snapshots on demand while print
screen can only capture one (and because printscreen creates clip files
instead of JPG or GIF files) and because Irfanview can be set to take a
snapshot surrepticiously every x seconds.

I don't think printscreen can do any of that
- take multiple snapshots
- generate jpg or gif files
- automatically snapshot every 5 seconds

Can it?

In conjuction with IrfanView it can at least: save the trimmed
screens as .JPGs; and it avoids showing the IrfanView icon in the
taskbar token.

 

[Franklin]

No... but then you didn't ask for any of that in your original
post.

Just what I was thinking! I guess the question is different to how it
seemed.

 

[Philip Peters]

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.

And the person sitting next to me won't notice all that?

 

[Philip Peters]

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

Right click on WHAT icon?
The one of the executable doesn't change what shows up in the task bar.
The icon of the shortcut doesn't change what shows up in the task bar.
Right clicking on the icon in the task bar leaves only the selection
Restore
Move
Size
Minimize
Maximize
Close

There are no "properties" when right clicking on the icon in the task bar.

 

[Philip Peters]

IIUC the icon which is displayed in the taskbar for an app is the
first icon within the EXE file (icon 0) and changing that is not easy
...it probably requires some careful messing inside the EXE using a
resource editor. There may be a small utility which manipulates it
but I don't know of one.

THis seems to be the closest answer to the truth.

Now WHERE do we find a Windows PC "resource" editor that will allow us to
modify the first icon (icon 0) of the EXE file?

 

[Philip Peters]

the icon which is displayed in the taskbar for an app is the

THis seems to be the closest answer to the truth.

Now WHERE do we find a Windows PC "resource" editor that will allow us to
modify the first icon (icon 0) of the EXE file?

Am trying "taskbar shuffle" to see if it modifies the taskbar icons,
particularly icon 0 (since icon0 is the icon that shows up in the task
bar).

http://www.freewebs.com/nerdcave/taskbarshuffle.htm

 

[Robert]

THis seems to be the closest answer to the truth.

Now WHERE do we find a Windows PC "resource" editor that will allow us to
modify the first icon (icon 0) of the EXE file?

There is an option to hide the toolbar, status bar, menu and/or caption of
the main window from the command line with /hide=x.

read (i_options.txt) for the info.

 

[John G]

Right click on WHAT icon?
The one of the executable doesn't change what shows up in the task
bar.
The icon of the shortcut doesn't change what shows up in the task bar.
Right clicking on the icon in the task bar leaves only the selection
Restore
Move
Size
Minimize
Maximize
Close

There are no "properties" when right clicking on the icon in the task
bar.

Dont Know what operating system you are using
It is nothing like that in Win XP.
It is just as instructed above.