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Icons Tips

CHANGING ICONS

In order to change the icon for a shortcut on your desktop, you must right-click on the current icon, select "Properties" from the context menu that pops up, select the "Program" tab, and then click on "Change Icon..." You'll be taken into the Change Icon Wizard, where you are normally given a selection of icons from the file PIFMGR.DLL. There is not a very large selection of icons in this library. If you click on the Browse button, you can search other libraries, such as SHELL32.DLL for instance. Windows 3.x icon libraries work also, so if you still have them around, browse for PROGMAN.EXE or MORICONS.DLL in the Windows 3.x folder. Incidentally, you can NOT change the icon for an executable file in Windows 95, only for a shortcut pointing to it.