Pyinstaller setting icons don t change

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When I use the command  pyinstaller exe --icon test ico -F --noconsole test py  All icons do not change to test ico  Some icons remain as the pyinstaller s default icon  Why  All icon change in  windows 7 32bit windows 7 64bit  make an exe file OS   Some remain default  windows 7 64bit  other PC

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I know this is old and whatnot  and not exactly sure if it s a question   but after searching  I had success with this command for --onefile   pyinstaller exe --onefile --windowed --icon app ico app py   Google led me to this page while I was searching for an answer on how to set an icon for my  exe  so maybe it will help someone else   The information here was found at this site  https   mborgerson com creating-an-executable-from-a-python-script

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I had similar problem  If no errors from pyinstaller try to change name of  exe file  It works for me

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That s error of a module in pyinstaller  The stuff would be sth like this  right  File  quot c  users p-stu appdata local programs python python38-32 lib site-packages PyInstaller utils win32 icon py quot   line 234  in CopyIcons     except win32api error as W32E  AttrubuteError  module  win32ctypes pywin32 win32api  has no attribute  error

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I think this might have something to do with caching  possibly in Windows Explorer   I was having the old PyInstaller icon show up in a few places too  but when I copied the exe somewhere else  all the old icons were gone

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Here is how you can add an icon while creating an exe file from a Python file  open command prompt at the place where Python file exist  type  pyinstaller --onefile -i quot path of icon quot   path of python file    Example-  pyinstaller --onefile -i quot C  icon Robot ico quot  C  Users Jarvis py  This is the easiest way to add an icon

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pyinstaller --clean --onefile --icon default ico Registry py  It works for Me

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The below command can set the icon on an executable file  Remember the  quot  ico quot  file should present in the place of the path given in  quot Path of  ico file quot   pyinstaller exe --onefile --windowed --icon  quot Path of  ico file quot  app py  For example  If the app py file is present in the current directory and app ico is present inside the Images folder within the current directory  Then the command should be as below  The final executable file will be generated inside the dist folder pyinstaller exe --onefile --windowed --icon Images app ico app py

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