How to change the icon of bat file programmatically

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I d like to know what s the way to actually set the icon of a  bat file to an arbitrary icon  How would I go about doing that programmatically  independently of the language I may be using

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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    SystemRoot  System32 SHELL32 dll  Note For me on Windows 10   SystemRoot     C  Windows    More Icons are here  C  Windows System32 imageres dll  Also you might want to have the first line in the batch file to be  cd     if you stash your batch files in a bat subdirectory one level below where your shortcuts   are supposed to execute

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I ll assume you are talking about Windows  right  I don t believe you can change the icon of a batch file directly  Icons are embedded in  EXE and  DLL files  or pointed to by  LNK files   You could try to change the file association  but that approach may vary based on the version of Windows you are using  This is down with the registry in XP  but I m not sure about Vista

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Try BatToExe converter  It will convert your batch file to an executable  and allow you to set an icon for it

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i recommand to use BAT to EXE converter for your desires

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You could use a Bat to Exe converter from here   http   www f2ko de en b2e php  This will convert your batch file to an executable  then you can set the icon for the converted file

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One of the way you can achieve this is    Create an executable Jar file Create a batch file to run the above jar and launch the desktop java application  Use Batch2Exe converter and covert to batch file to Exe  During above conversion  you can change the icon to that of your choice  must of valid  ico file  Place the short cut for the above exe on desktop    Now your java program can be opened in a fancy way just like any other MSWindows apps

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Assuming you re referring to MS-DOS batch files  as it is simply a text file with a special extension  a  bat file doesn t store an icon of its own   You can  however  create a shortcut in the  lnk format that stores an icon

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The icon displayed by the Shell  Explorer  for batch files is determined by the registry key  HKCR batfile DefaultIcon   which  on my computer is   SystemRoot  System32 imageres dll -68   You can set this to any icon you like   This will however change the icons of all batch files  unless they have the extension  cmd

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try with shortcutjs bat to create a shortcut  call shortcutjs bat -linkfile mybat3 lnk -target  quot  cd  Ascii2All bat quot  -iconlocation  quot  SystemRoot  System32 SHELL32 dll 77 quot   you can use the -iconlocation switch to point to a icon

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You can just create a shortcut and then right click on it - gt  properties - gt  change icon  and just browse for your desired icon  Hope this help  To set an icon of a shortcut programmatically  see this article using SetIconLocation  How Can I Change the Icon for an Existing Shortcut   https   devblogs microsoft com scripting how-can-i-change-the-icon-for-an-existing-shortcut  Const DESKTOP    amp H10 amp  Set objShell   CreateObject  quot Shell Application quot   Set objFolder   objShell NameSpace DESKTOP  Set objFolderItem   objFolder ParseName  quot Test Shortcut lnk quot   Set objShortcut   objFolderItem GetLink objShortcut SetIconLocation  quot C  Windows System32 SHELL32 dll quot   13 objShortcut Save

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