There are tehnically two options here that change the icon of the source file, but you would either need to wrap the batch file with an SFX archive, or use Bat To Exe Converter. I personally use Bat To Exe Converter, because it allows you to set things like the icon, as well as version information and even personal favorites such as invisible launch and obfuscation. You can also use either Resource Hacker or Resource Editor to add things that Bat To Exe Converter can't add during the building process. You can also use Resource Hacker on some projects to make changes after building in case you lose the source batch. The resource containing the script is usually under RCData-> B. Hope this helps...
Bat file icon changer
We'll show you how to change icons on Windows 10, including program and folder icons. With a bit of work, you'll have an all-new interface with a unique look! While we focus on Windows 10 here, these tips largely work the same on Windows 11.
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Windows 10 makes it easy to change the program icon for a shortcut, but not the main executable. Thus, you should make a desktop shortcut for the app icon you want to change, if you don't have one already.
To do this, search for an app in the Start menu, then right-click its name and choose Open file location. In the resulting folder, right-click the program name and choose Send to > Desktop (create shortcut).
Want to customize the icons on your Taskbar too? The easiest way to do this is to follow the steps above to create custom desktop icons. After that, simply right-click a shortcut and choose Pin to Taskbar.
If you'd rather, you can customize an icon already pinned to your Taskbar. While holding Shift, right-click the app icon and choose Properties. From here, you can follow the same steps as above to set a new icon.
On the resulting window, switch to the Customize tab. Select the Change Icon button at the bottom to select a new icon from your computer. Windows includes many default icons for this, but most of them are old-school and ugly. Hit Browse to locate your custom icons instead.
Now, double-click the 3 string you just made. In the Value data field, enter the location of your folder icon in quotes. An easy way to do this is by holding Shift while right-clicking your ICO file, then selecting the Copy as path option. It should look something like this:
After downloading and running it, press Ctrl + F to locate the file type you want to change. Double-click it in the list to open a new window with many more options. Next to the Default Icon field, you'll see a ... (ellipsis) button.
Using this, you can set up separate icons to distinguish file types, even if they open in the same program. You might want to make it easier to highlight JPG and PNG files at a glance, or spot old DOC Word files not using the newer DOCX format, for instance.
To start, create a new folder somewhere you can keep permanently. Name it Spaces or something similar. Inside this folder, right-click again and choose New > Text document. Double-click the file to open it.
After this, go to File > Save As. In the saving dialog box, give the file a name ending in .BAT. If you want to create multiple spaces, you should then copy, paste, and rename the file so you have several named Space1.bat, Space2.bat, and so on.
Windows has blank icons built-in. But in our testing, these can appear as black squares on your Taskbar instead of transparent boxes, which is no good. This means you'll need to quickly make your own "blank" icon.
Now, right-click each Space file you made and choose Create shortcut, as you'll need a shortcut, not the main BAT file, in order to change the icon. Then right-click each shortcut file, select Properties, and use the Change Icon button to select your new blank icon.
Once this is done, you'll need to add one more element in order to add these shortcuts to your Taskbar. In the Shortcut tab of each BAT file, enter explorer in front of everything in the Target box. Make sure there's a space before the opening quotes.
Now you can right-click all your Space files and choose Pin to taskbar. They'll appear as blank icons, allowing you to drag them wherever you like and group your other icons.
Just want to adjust the size of Windows 10 icons on your desktop? That's an easy fix. On the desktop, you can right-click any empty space and choose View to select Small icons, Medium icons, or Large icons.
If you don't see any icons on your desktop, chances are that you've hidden them all. Getting them back takes just a few clicks. Right-click anywhere on your desktop, then select View > Show desktop icons if it's not already checked. With this enabled, you should see your desktop icons with no problem.
Finally, if you're missing the default Windows 10 system icons, you'll need to restore them in another menu. Go to Settings > Personalization > Themes and on the right side of the window, select Desktop icon settings.
This will launch a new window where you can toggle the icons for This PC, your user folder, Network, Control Panel, and the Recycle Bin. While here, you can also change the icons for these shortcuts if you want.
Now you know how to change nearly every icon on your Windows system. Whether you want to completely overhaul everything or just want to change a few shortcut icons, you have the tools to personalize your computer in a fun way.
The icon for a jpeg file in Windows Explorer actually shows the image, but when I convert to pdf, all files show the red Adobe Reader image. How can I change the pdf file icon to reflect the file image?
Here is a link to a Scripting Guy article where he uses a VBScript to do this. I dont think a batch can do everything you are looking for. I am assuming you are trying to use an icon in a dll, because this is how this script he shows works.
The IconIndex for this interface works top to bottom, starting with 0. So count the rows until you see your desired icon, multiply this by 4, subtract 1, and count up to your desired icon. The IconIndex for the Windows Update icon turns out to be 46.
Hello ArjanI liked you blog very much. You have very useful and interesting articles.I would like to know if it is possible to change the icon and the RADC screen that is installed by default on the clients?
It is not possible to change the icon for the *.bat file, but it is possible to store the file on the computer at a location where it does not disturb the user and to create a shortcut to this file. Place it on the desktop or anywhere else. You can now change the icon of the shortcut.You can launch as many programs as you want just by adding new rows in the text document.
First, you should know that Windows 11 taskbar icons come in three sizes: small, medium, or large. Medium is the default size, so you have room to maneuver whether your taskbar is too big or too small.
Sometimes you need to pin a batch file to the Start menu or taskbar in Windows. Unfortunately, the operating system doesn't allow you to do it out of the box. "Pin to Start" and "Pin to taskbar" context menu commands are missing in the context menu of File Explorer in Windows 10. Here is a quick workaround which will allow you to achieve the goal. When you right click a batch file, you will see that the context menu does not contain the commands "Pin to Start" and "Pin to taskbar": As a workaround, you can create a shortcut with the following target:
Fast Easy solution: Rename your .bat file to .exe and then drag to task bar. Then right click the shortcut on the taskbar, select properties, and rename back to .bat .. and rename the original file back to .bat
I prepared the following BAT script for the Send To context menu. This BAT file copies itself to the Send To folder, thus creating any file to click in the Send To context menu as a shortcut to the Start Menu\Programs.
When no custom default icon is assigned to a file type, the desktop and Windows Explorer display all files of that type with a generic default icon. For example, the following screen shot shows this default icon used with the MyDocs4.myp file.
While all the files displayed in this screen shot are simple text files, only MyDocs4.myp displays the Windows default icon. This is because the .txt extension is a registered file type that has a custom default icon.
The following example shows a detailed view of the registry entries that are required for a file-type icon assignment. The file name extension is associated with an application, but the icon assignment is to the file name extension itself so that the associated application does not dictate the default icon.
The following example shows a detailed view of the registry entries that are required for an application icon assignment. The .myp file name extension is first associated with the MyProgram.1 application. The MyProgram.1 ProgID subkey is then assigned the custom default icon.
One of Folder Markers most useful options is the context menu. Right click on a folder and you get the option to instantly change to a number of preset folder type icons or 6 different colors. The option to change this menu is only available in the shareware versions of the program. 2ff7e9595c
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