Sep 28, 2017 · Yes, I'm talking about the CMD window inheriting the icon of the shortcut. It works on Windows 7 without hacking cmd.exe. It stopped working when I upgraded to Windows 10. The fact that the CMD windows are showing the generic application icon rather than the CMD icon suggests that cmd.exe is trying to change its own icon but somehow failing.

Feb 19, 2019 · Place your icon resources into a .dll file, and point cmd.exe, or your batch file shortcut, .lnk to the particular icon you wish within the .dll file. Please note, (although not relevant to your provided OS) , that from Windows 10 onwards, I believe that the .dll must be located in \Windows\System32 for this to work.

May 8, 2016 · Iconpath= the full path to the icon's location. The result is I have a folder located @ E:\test\ that has the icon in question. you should be able to run that code and get output by only editing the top 3 lines, or you could write it in manually.

Aug 19, 2008 · If you want an icon for a batch file, first create a link for the batch file as follows. Right click in window folder where you want the link select New -> Shortcut, then specify where the .bat file is. This creates the .lnk file you wanted. Then you can specify an icon for the link, on its properties page. Some nice icons are available here:

Mar 14, 2021 · I want to take a folder without an icon then add one. Or in your case, "change" the icon. For example, if you change the icon in the .ini, the folder icon will be the same. If you then rename the folder, it will update. If you change the name back, the icon will reset too. Only after it actually "updates" will the new icon be set.

Aug 11, 2017 · That's cool. Works fine in Win8.1 Quick and easy. And with the "QuickEdit" and "Run as Administrator" settings in the taskbar CMD icon, I was able to create the bat file by simply copying your text above, then clicking on the CMD icon. Typed copy con clearcache.bat then Enter, then Right-click to paste it in. One more Enter then a Ctrl-Z ...

Feb 20, 2012 · Then I created the shortcut on my desktop and set the icon to the ico file on my C: drive. I then copied both the .ico and shortcut to a network share that my users have access to. Once there I wrote the following batch file to copy the ico and .url to the users windows 7 desktop.

In Windows 7 (and other versions), a batch (.CMD) file can contain the START command to run other executables without pausing the current batch execution. (similar to & in Unix). Under normal conditions, the program runs and the CMD file immediately exits.

May 4, 2015 · A filesystem symbolic link is fine for a file that will be run/opened via ShellExecuteEx or a bat/cmd script for which CreateProcess hard codes running the %ComSpec% command interpreter. But it won't work for an .exe (specifically a PE executable, regardless of extension) that looks for resources relative to the application directory.

I have this batch file I created. Put it in the parent folder of all the folders that you want to search through.