How to change icon of exe file? [modified]

[88Rocker]

how can i do it? should i open it in resourse file?

[Lost User]

No, open it in a resource editor, like VS. Each exe has a resources section that contains strings, version, icons, bitmaps, all sorts of crap. This is freely editable after the exe is compiiled.

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[88Rocker]

thanks got it

[Aamir Butt]

You have been treated very nicely in the Lounge up till now. Lounge is not for programming questions. That's what it says at the top in Big Red font when you try to post a question here. Ask programming question in Questions and Answers Section of the site.Link here.[^]

[Pete OHanlon]

So the only area you are allowed to go to at all is the lounge? Are the forums here blocked? What about the Questions & Answers sections? Well, that's one tough set of restrictions you've got going on there.

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[88Rocker]

this is not programming question :) its general question

modified on Thursday, May 19, 2011 7:33 AM

[88Rocker]

i never said that, sorry if its doesnt belong from this section

[NormDroid]

Put your head in a bucket of boiling oil, that should help.

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[JustWorking]

Use this site Clicky[] to convert any image to .ico and use it in your .exe file

[Pete OHanlon]

Lesson learned hopefully. There's a big hunk of text at the top in a very bold font telling you not to post programming questions here in the lounge. This is where we come to get away from programming, or in Dalek Dave's case, to talk to real programmers and not Excel monkeys ;) .

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[88Rocker]

dude u didnt understand what i was trying to ask, it was not programming question, i want to change exe icon, like i have yahoo messenger exe, not one in bin folder

[Henry Minute]

Right click on the file in explorer, select 'Properties' from the context menu and on the dialog that pops up select the most suitable looking button.

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[Pete OHanlon]

waqas316 wrote:

dude u didnt understand

Dude :rolleyes: If I didn't understand it, that means you didn't explain it clearly. Now, could you stop using text speak here in the lounge, it's extremely irritating. You have a keyboard full of these wonderful things, we call letters, which you can take advantage of.

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[Rage]

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

If I didn't understand it, that means you didn't explain it clearly

Hey, Dude, don't make yourself dumber as you are, Dude. I tell ya, Dude.:rolleyes:

[Pete OHanlon]

There's nothing sounds worse than a middle-aged English white man saying dude. If I ever was a dude, that probably passed over 20 years ago.

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DAMN THAT SONICWALL!

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[Keith Barrow]

Wrong forum.

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[Rage]

I don't know why, but I have always made a mental association between Marc Clifton and the Dude[^]. Even if Marc also probably passed the Dude time 20 years ago.

[Pete OHanlon]

Marc is not the "Dude". Marc is definitely "Da Man". Possibly even "The Daddy".

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[Rage]

I second "Da Man", sounds very good to me. Thanks for correcting my mental associations :thumbsup: