Trying to change an icon for a shortcut via vbs/command line

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booker@mgt

I have the following vbs script running as a logon script. But everytime it
runs, When the shortcut is created, it is created with the symbol of no icon.
How can I direct the icon location to an actual windows system icon file.
When I open up a file via properties, and browse for a new icon, it directs
me to look in shell32.dll, but I can't find a way to get to all of those
icons shown in that window.

Thanks



set objShell = Wscript.Createobject("Wscript.Shell")
strDesktopFld = objShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
Set objURLShortcut = objShell.createShortcut(strDesktopFld &
"\Install-CoM-Applications.lnk")
'Name for Shortcut to add
objURLShortcut.Targetpath = "http://localhost:9595/webportal/webportal.exe"
'Path to icon
objURLShortcut.IconLocation = "C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\images\thanks8.png"
'Path for Shortcut
objURLShortcut.Save
 
You cannot, I think, use a PNG file as an icon. You must convert "thanks8.png" to an icon
file. That should work.


ju.c
 
booker@mgt said:
I have the following vbs script running as a logon script. But everytime it
runs, When the shortcut is created, it is created with the symbol of no icon.
How can I direct the icon location to an actual windows system icon file.
When I open up a file via properties, and browse for a new icon, it directs
me to look in shell32.dll, but I can't find a way to get to all of those
icons shown in that window.
Thanks

set objShell = Wscript.Createobject("Wscript.Shell")
strDesktopFld = objShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
Set objURLShortcut = objShell.createShortcut(strDesktopFld &
"\Install-CoM-Applications.lnk")
'Name for Shortcut to add
objURLShortcut.Targetpath = "http://localhost:9595/webportal/webportal.exe"
'Path to icon
objURLShortcut.IconLocation = "C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\images\thanks8.png"
'Path for Shortcut
objURLShortcut.Save
Click to expand...

In 'Path for Icon' line,
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,0"
will use the first icon in the file 'shell32.dll'. The number after the ','
is the zero-based index of the icon in any file which contains at least one icon.

In the 'Change Icon' dialog, the index value of the top-left icon is '0'.
0 4 8 ...
1 5 ...
2 6 ...
3 7 ...

(Your 'Path to icon' and 'Path for Shortcut' comments are transposed.)
 
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