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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Non-Windows Apps Icons (Why do they change?)
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Date: 12 Mar 91 09:26:06 GMT
References: <1991Mar12.165438.12792@cbnewsk.att.com>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <1991Mar12.165438.12792@cbnewsk.att.com> konopka@cbnewsk.att.com (raymond.konopka..jr) writes:
>I have a number of Non-Windows apps installed in the Non-Win Apps
>group under program manager in Win 3.0.  I have used the 
>ICONDRAW.EXE program to create Icons for these programs.  
>The problem that I have been experiencing is this:  The icons come up
>fine in the Non-Win Apps Window, but if I run one of these applications
>in a window (I am in 386 enhanced), and then reduce the window to
>an icon, the icon changes to the DOS icon provided by Windows 3.0.
>
>Is there any way to force windows to use the icon that I created?

This is an incredibly frequently asked question.

The answer is no.  When you tell Program Manager to use a special icon
file for a program item in one of its groups, that is ALL you have done:
told Program Manager.  When an application is iconized onto the Desktop,
Progman is out of the loop.  The Windows iconizer only knows to look in
the .EXE file for an icon.  All DosApps get the DOS icon.