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From: rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Randy Spangler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Using Win 3.0 on Shared-Use Machines
Keywords: Windows 3.0, File Properties
Message-ID: <7773@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 9 Jul 90 15:41:25 GMT
References: <1990Jul6.152405.929@athena.mit.edu> <7768@fy.sei.cmu.edu> <1433@epd74hp.nluug.nl>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <1433@epd74hp.nluug.nl> geoff@epd74hp.UUCP (Geoff Coupe) writes:
>2) Your application's icon is replaced by the default Windows icon for a DOS
>   file in the program manager window.  So now, on my system, both WinWord
>   and Excel have the same nondescript icons, which rather removes the whole 
>   raison d'etre of icons ...
>
>You can't have your cake and eat it...

Oh, yes you can.

Single-click on that icon to highlight it, then go into the menu item
"properties."  Then click on "change icon."  In the filename box, type
EXCEL.EXE or whatever, then click on "view next."  This will go through all
the icons in EXCEL.EXE, one of which should be the regular Excel icon.

Same technique for WinWord.

Now, can someone please find a way to make Windows remember that icon, so
that when I run a PIF file with a custom icon in program manager and then 
minimize it, I get my custom icon down at the bottom of the screen?  I'm 
getting tired of these infernal little DOS boxes.

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|    Randy Spangler                    |    The less things change, the    |
|    rspangle@jarthur.claremont.edu    |    more they remain the same      |
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