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How to change the icon of an exe-file? – Lonelli

Lonelli

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From: Finland
Registered: 07-29-2004
Is there any free software for changing the icon of an exe?

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CobraA1

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I'm sure there is, don't know where, though. Why do you want to change an icon anyways?

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Lonelli

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BlitzBasic 3D makes always a "rocket"-icon for exe-files. As far as I know, you can't change it in Blitz...

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Briant

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http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/

Resource hacker lets you change the resources (including icons) in any .exe or .dll. But be very careful what you change, you could end up breaking any code that depends on certain resource conditions, etc.

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CobraA1

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Yeah, Resource Hacker should work fine. I find it odd that a game creation tool like Blitz wouldn't have a way of changng the icon, though .

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Lonelli

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I think that's very odd too, but Blitz doesn't give any options before compiling...

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goop2

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you can change icons with RH?

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I dont like siggys. They are to hard to think up :(

Briant

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From: Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
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quote:
Originally posted by goop2:
you can change icons with RH?


You can't directly edit it, but you can replace it with another one.

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Brian

goop2

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Well thats what I meant.

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I dont like siggys. They are to hard to think up :(