Changing the Desktop Icon from form1

[gungadin_]

Hi,

I have been trying to change the icon that displays on my desktop for my .exe program. It defaults to an folder icon, which I think is called form1.

When I select properties, make under the project theres a pulldown with the word form1 in there. But I can't seem to change it. Or find where its getting its selections from.

I have figured out the taskbar icon and that works fine. But would like to change the actual icon that is displayed on my desktop. On most program files you can right click the properties and click change icon. My my .exe does not have this option.

Thanks for any help,
Jim

[dglienna]

Welcome to the forums!

If you are using the icon in form1, just change that icon to the one that you want, and the exe will also use it.

[gungadin_]

Thanks for the quick reply. I don't know where to find that form1 icon. I did a search for form1.ico but came up with nothing. Do you guys know where it would be?

[Jumpercables]

Click on the Form1 go to properties - its named ICON click it an add the icon you want.

[gungadin_]

Thank you guys, I don't know how many times I tried properties on all of those forms and missed it for some reason.

[Jumpercables]

No problem took me forever to find it too