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From: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu (Good writers re-write -- not write!)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Non-Windows Apps Icons (Why do they change?)
Message-ID: <12769.27dd23e3@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 91 18:54:27 GMT
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In article <20339553@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
> 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
VIEWICON has an utility (PUTICON) which is supposed to append icons to an
EXE file. 
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