Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!xylogics!world!goodearl
From: goodearl@world.std.com (Robert D Goodearl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Using Win 3.0 on Shared-Use Machines
Keywords: Windows 3.0, File Properties
Message-ID: <1990Jul9.181437.9468@world.std.com>
Date: 9 Jul 90 18:14:37 GMT
References: <1990Jul6.152405.929@athena.mit.edu> <7768@fy.sei.cmu.edu> <1433@epd74hp.nluug.nl>
Organization: The World
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In article <1433@epd74hp.nluug.nl> geoff@epd74hp.UUCP (Geoff Coupe) writes:
>In article <7768@fy.sei.cmu.edu> bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) writes:
>>My solution:  I need word for windows to start in the subdirectory that
>>contains this months letters (\wp\90-07).  Using properties I specify:
>>\wp\90-07\winword.exe as the program to run. Since winword.exe is not
>>found in that directory, the program manager complains that the file is
>>invalid BUT allows me to select OK.  As winword.exe is on the path,
>>winword.exe will still be found and started, but the starting directory
>>will be \wp\90-07. 
>>

...

>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...
>

Before clicking OK in the Program Item Properties dialog box, click on the
Change Icon button.  Then enter the full pathname to the executable file you
want to take the icon from.  This can be the executable you are running (Excel,
WinWord, etc.), any other executable (an interesting way to confuse people :-)
or a .ico file that contains just an icon.

Bob Goodearl -- goodearl@world.std.com