How do I create a really cool icon?

Go to Prject Properties, select Make tab and in field
Icon choose form whos icon you would like to see in Exporer

Is this what you wanted?

Here's a few tips about icons and your exe size:

You can put default Windows icon on any form by going to
icon property and pressing Delete on your keyboard. This
icon is not saved in your exe

If you'r using one icon on two or more forms, use previus
tip to delete icons on Form2 and other forms except Form1.
Then place fallowing code to Form_Load on Form2 and other
forms:

me.icon=form1.icon

You can use this same thing if you have more than one
PictureBox with same picture, but code would be:

Picture2.Picture = Picture1.Picture
Picture3.Picture = Picture1.Picture
and so on

[Edited by ns-code on 09-03-2000 at 01:54 AM]

You can also change icons while a program is running. I have an alarm monitoring program which runs minimized on the taskbar and it changes icons with the alarm state. to do this the app has 4 additional forms to the main one. Three of these forms have different a icon for different alarms and the fourth has a duplicate of the main form. To change icons you can use "mainform.icon = form1.icon" etc and to restore the original use "mainform.icon = form4.icon". The text on the task bar also changes by using "mainform.caption = textstring"