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many thanks for a simple step by step how to you the mannnnnnn
I am new to this forum and I didn't want to bump it, but its only a few months and perhaps others are having the same issue.
So I have successfully changed a few of the icons I have tried using Resource Hacker.
Here's my problem. I replaced my Firefox icon with something, and now I am attempting to change it again to something else. The first time I changed it, everything works, I pinned it to the taskbar (Windows 7), it opens up with the correct icon, everything. Now when I change it again I get the newer icon working on the shortcut, pin that to the taskbar, but then when I open it it shows the old icon I changed it to. I have tried multiple times to re-change the icon to no avail.
Any help here would be great!
Hello bcannariato, and welcome to Seven Forums.
Did you change the icon of the shortcut or the actual .exe file for Firefox?
If you did change the icon for the .exe file, then you might see if rebuilding the icon cache may help.
Hope this helps, :)
Shawn
I am adding a little to Brink's suggestion, for most of the third party icons (those are not having a MSI based installer), the best way to change the icons is Taskbar Pinned Icons - Change.
It takes the effect system wide.
Hi Mike.
Icons, when applied as system icons or any other third party program icons, they must be .ico files.
Size doesn't matter. All good icons are multi-sized.
When icons are applied in docks etc, they needed to be .png.
Some other system resources including the start button are .bmp images. And, a start button image is not a single image but a combination of three images. For 100% DPI the three .bmp images are 6801, 6805 and 6809 in explorer.exe.