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From: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Sanjay Aiyagari)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Icons and *.ICO Files
Message-ID: <1991May9.144533.4630@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 9 May 91 14:45:33 EDT
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In article <1991May8.193851.21056@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
elmanad@leland.Stanford.EDU (Adam Elman) writes: 
> In article <00948496.3FF72760@cgevs3.cem.msu.edu> user2@cgevs3.cem.msu.edu 
> (Stephen Medlin) writes:
>>[...]
>>would be left with the default PROGMAN icons.  Lo' to my surprise, I still
>>have all of the icons "stuck" to the items.  I had expected that windows
>>read in the icons at boot time and applied them to the groups, but that
>>is not obviously what it does.  It seems to me that this is a really neat
>>feature/bug, because I can now keep all of my icons on floppy, apply new 
>>[...] 
> Actually, this is a well-known feature.  Program Manager stores the
> icons for files in the .grp files for each group.  It only reads the
> original .ico file when you click on the "change properties" selection
> in the menu.  If you do that, of course, and the icon is not in the
> path that ProgMan thinks it is, the icon will return to the default.

Yes, this was a "feature" that had me puzzled when I first installed Windows
3.0.  For some reason, I had total garbage for all the icons installed by the
SETUP program.  Yet the icons for Windows applications are stored in the .EXE
file, so I at first thought that something was wrong with the .EXE files.  But
then, I realized that selecting each file in turn and choosing File Properties
would put the correct icon there.  Strange.

Sanjay Aiyagari (hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu)