athleos

Join Date 05/2009

Missing Option

Changing icon of .exe file

In icon-packager 5 I could right-click on my Firefox.exe and the option to change icon was available, but after I purchased icon-packager 10 the right-click option is not there for .exe files. Not fair.

Later I discovered I was able to do this manually within my 'IconFX' program.

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ZubaZ

Join Date 11/2001

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Unfortunately, due to changes in the Windows operating system, changing exe files could cause problems and that option was removed.

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AceMatrix

Join Date 01/2010

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You may want to check this out : http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/filetypesman.html

I have used it on occasion with great success. -- Ace --

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IIRC you can make a shortcut to the .exe then the customize/change icon option should be there on the proprieties tab to the shortcut.

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Thank you for your respectful reply. At first I thought it was something to do with copyright or admin/permissions.

I think it would be nice if Stardock updated the program with a checkbox Option in settings - for advanced users that would be fine with the low risk. Removing the option completely means ip5 has that extra fun option to offer. I should not have updated to ip10 So I was wondering, with my activation key, could I revert back to ip5, or instead hope for that advanced option update??

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Thanks Ace, I'll check that out.

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I am not sure this will work but that option is being implemented by the "shellext.dll",you may put it onto IP10 folder,see how that goes......

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Hell Yeah I'll try that. if not, I may have another way of manually doing it with my 'IconFX' program, anyway, thanks for the suggestion

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To Gaspershooters. That suggestion did not work. but I am happy to report that I was able to do it with my 'IconFX' program

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Did you register the shellext.dll in your system??

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To Gaspershooters.

The shellext.dll and shellext64.dll is already in my IP10 folder, but not sure if there is anything else I can do with it.

I am content that I can manually change icons for exe files with my IconFX program. I am going to leave it at that. Bye the way, since I have changed some icons for certain exe programs I have had no problems at all, my system is very stable.

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