Change app/exe icon

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Some freeware programs have icons which I would prefer to change
(personal use only).
Can I use ResHacker or is there something else I should use? Anything to
be aware of when doing this? I tried ResHacker and it worked on one .exe
but another one bombed out.
Thanks
 
©® said:
Some freeware programs have icons which I would prefer to change
(personal use only).
Can I use ResHacker or is there something else I should use? Anything to
be aware of when doing this? I tried ResHacker and it worked on one .exe
but another one bombed out.
Thanks
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Increasingly many more program executables, DLLs, and other library files,
are
being compressed at time of release to sale or availability. And, there are
myriad
algorithms for compression. The reason is not merely to make a smaller
file, but
also to prevent the very thing you want to do ... reverse engineer an
author's work.
Your single success with ResHacker happened to be a non-compressed work.
 
©® said:
Some freeware programs have icons which I would prefer to change
(personal use only).
Can I use ResHacker or is there something else I should use? Anything to
be aware of when doing this? I tried ResHacker and it worked on one .exe
but another one bombed out.
Thanks
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As has been pointed out, in some cases, ResHacker will allow you to do
exactly what your wanting to do, however, in the case of programs written in
VB (and VC and Delphi I believe), it's more likely to screw the program's
executable.

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Disclaimer:
I know I'm probably wrong, I just like taking part ;o)
 
Lord Whiz wrote:
[...]
Increasingly many more program executables, DLLs, and other library files,
are
being compressed at time of release to sale or availability. And, there are
myriad
algorithms for compression. The reason is not merely to make a smaller
file, but
also to prevent the very thing you want to do ... reverse engineer an
author's work.
Your single success with ResHacker happened to be a non-compressed work.
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©® said:
Some freeware programs have icons which I would prefer to change
(personal use only).
Can I use ResHacker or is there something else I should use? Anything to
be aware of when doing this? I tried ResHacker and it worked on one .exe
but another one bombed out.
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Easy/free solution: Create a Windows shortcut to the .exe then modify
the icon for the shortcut and point it to any icon you want. Or, if the
a shortcut was places on your desktop or your start menu, just modify
the shortcut's icon.
 
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