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Hi, I'm in the proccess of building a windows installer from the ground up and I was wondering if there is anyway to change a file types icon with DOS commands? Any information at all would be really appreciated.
Nov 30 '08 #1
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Nepomuk
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I'm not sure if there's any predefined command to do that, but knowing the file format for shortcuts could help.

Greetings,
Nepomuk
Dec 1 '08 #2
george666
28 New Member
Yes, just update the registry
See on specialized Win32 api newsgroup :
news://194.177.96.26/comp.os.ms-wind...ogrammer.win32
where it has often been discussed
Dec 1 '08 #3
Nepomuk
3,112 Recognized Expert Specialist
I checked that newsgroup and couldn't find the information you mentioned - could you maybe quote it here?

Also, not everybody knows how to use newsgroups, so posting such a link can be confusing for some people.

Anyway, thanks for the tip!

Greetings,
Nepomuk
Dec 1 '08 #4
Kvod10
7 New Member
Thanks for the doc about shortcuts. I'm still a little confused about the IShellLink Interface. I've been doing some research on it and I have found a lot of information on how to use it, but no information on how to access it.
Dec 2 '08 #5

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