Change .ico Icon

[Greg27]

Hi.

Wondering if there is a way to change the icon for the .ico format

When I try in IconPackager, it says I cannot change the icon for this fomat

Does anyone know where the icon is stored, it's not in Shell32.dll, because Reshacking it might work.

Thx.

[matonga]

I'm not sure if this is what you're asking for:

.ico file format is the icon itself.

If you want to replace such icon, just delete it (ok, make a backup of it first) then put your icon with the same name there.

[Greg27]

My .ico icons all look like this in icon view.

I want their icon to be something like this:

Edited February 18, 2009 by Greg27

[matonga]

Oh, now I understand your question!

Run the Registry Editor (Start menu, Run, regedit.exe).

Now expand My computer, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, find .ico, and in the right pane take note of the (Default) value. In my case it says icofile.

Now, again under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, find the (Default) value this time (icofile in my case, your mileage may vary), expand it, and you'll see a subkey named DefaultIcon. Click it, and in the right pane you'll see a (Default) value (%1 in my case, probably an icon or .dll file in your case). Double click it to change the value to the full path of the icon you want to use.

I understand you can change the icon in Explorer too, using View, Folder options, File types, searching for the icon file type, and then changing the icon. You may want to try that instead.

Tell if you did it and what results did you have.

Edit

BTW just in case, you'll need to convert that .png file into an icon.

[Greg27]

Thanks Matonga, it worked.