Comments for How do I change the icon of a desktop shortcut?

Comment from Angie on 2009-10-22

2009-10-22T19:20:02Z

I am a Insurance Agent and have saved my the companies I use web site shortcuts to my desktop but would like to change the icons to quicker reconize my choices! I have gone to change icon tab and click "apply" but I get a shortcut message problem error, how can I fix this issue.

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Comment from tom hodge on 2009-03-11

2009-03-11T15:23:17Z

my head's spinning... since with Vista I can't find a way to locate original program logo icons
(such as Yahoo, AltaVista, GMail, etc. and if I pick a generic icon from Billy Gates' choices, that generic icon disappears after I use it once, and it reverts back to the default pagey looking one. Help!

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Comment from R Brown on 2009-02-08

2009-02-09T06:22:08Z

I'm attempting to change a DOS program shortcut icon in Vista Home. When I click on the desktop shortcut Icon and select Properties I get a General Tab & Program Tab plus several other Tabs. The Program Tab Window has a [Change Icon] button following your instructions changes the Icon in the Program Window but not in the General Tab Window or the Desktop Icon? Note:The Dos program works normally when the the desktop icon is selected.

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Comment from Richard Brummundt on 2009-01-22

2009-01-23T01:07:51Z

Article dated Nov. 6th, 2008 regarding changing icons on the desktop with IE7, same problem what is the fix. Searched the Web and no one has published one that I could find that works. Does anyone have a fix.

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Comment from David Heenan on 2008-11-06

2008-11-06T16:47:09Z

Read the article and It is very clear and concise. However I have had a problem with IE7 in that I cannot change the icon of a shortcut. I follow the normal procedure to do so, and having chosen the icon it appears in the properties box, but when I click apply the icon on the screen just flickers and reverts to the windows default shortcut icon. I see that this is a common problem in IE7, but I have yet to see a solution

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Comment from Rose Mary on 2008-02-07

2008-02-08T04:32:15Z

Hi,
This is what's happening: I have some shockwave games shortcuts on my desktop and they are now blank (the little box white inside with the icon "arrow" showing. I couldnt' access the game, it says the "the shortcut.exe is missing" and it gave me the option to find it myself.
I restarted the computer and the icons are now showing thru with the proper names but once again, I click on them and gives me the same message. (does that make sense to you?) I can't access any of my games.... help!!

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Comment from Sandy Bloom on 2008-02-06

2008-02-06T19:31:34Z

BTW, the original Windows Icons (Recycle, Outlook etc) are intact.

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Comment from Sandy Bloom on 2008-02-06

2008-02-06T19:30:05Z

In XP, I am locked out of changing shortcut deshtop icons. Even the original web icons are gone, and I just have the generic MS Dos icon, that I cannot change. Please help me. Thanks.

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Comment from Bonita Flora on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T01:36:36Z

Leo, thanks for the additional places to look for icons. Here is what I did and anyone please feel free to advise if this is not a good idea.

Many items on the All Programs list had the plain generic folder icon. It looked like a sea of vanilla folders. Made a new folder on the Desktop (or in My Documents) to store the more descriptive icons that correspond to each program. Found these in the program files. Select and copy a file showing its icon (not a shortcut icon) into the new folder. Icon may copy with the .exe or another suffix. Change the suffix of the copied icon to .ico.

Then, in All Programs, to change the icon of a program, right click it, choose properties, customize, change icon. Browse to your folder; open, select the icon, choose apply, OK, etc. One caution, clicking "restore default" changed all the icons on All Programs back to the plain vanilla folders. (Fortunately was able to use System Restore to fix this.)

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Comment from Patricia Whitworth on 2007-07-28

2007-07-28T14:00:44Z

I tried to change the icon of an HTML desktop shortcut, but the tabs were missing to make this change. What do I do now?

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