{"id":236,"date":"2016-09-05T05:19:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T04:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=236"},"modified":"2016-11-26T07:49:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T06:49:46","slug":"adding-a-custom-icon-to-an-application-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Adding a custom icon to an application &#8211; Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it just took me the better part of an hour to figure out how to pin a custom program to the taskbar <em><strong>with<\/strong><\/em> a custom icon! If the .exe doesn&#8217;t contain an application icon, the task bar icon is replaced by the default icon on exit.<\/p>\n<p>Well, my program does contain an icon (it&#8217;s a QT App), but Winblows doesn&#8217;t care. Maybe because it&#8217;s a PNG instead of ICO, but who knows.<\/p>\n<p>The W\u00fcrgaround: create a shortcut for the executable, then right-click for properties and voila, there&#8217;s a &#8220;Change icon&#8230;&#8221; button! Change the icon to whatever, start the App via the shortcut and pin it to the taskbar!<\/p>\n<p>This is wrong in so, so many ways&#8230; Don&#8217;t even get me started \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it just took me the better part of an hour to figure out how to pin a custom program to the taskbar with a custom icon! If the .exe doesn&#8217;t contain an application icon, the task bar icon is replaced by the default icon on exit. Well, my program does contain an icon (it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=236\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adding a custom icon to an application &#8211; Windows 10<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}