Command Prompt change file icon
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You can to do this very easily with the right tools in the windows console, or write a BAT program to do this for you.
First, you need to find the association value.
ECHO WHAT ASSOC FILE ICON ARE WE EDITING?
SET /P VAR=
Next, you need provide the icon file path
ECHO WHERE IS THE ICON LOCATED?
SET /P VAR2=
Finally, you can write a script to edit this.
That would look like:
echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 >>tmp.reg
echo [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\%var%\DefaultIcon\] >>tmp.reg
echo "(Default)"="%var2%" >>tmp.reg
than you can run the file with
start tmp.reg
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Samuel
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Samuel over 1 year
It is possible to change file associations using the command prompt
assoc .c=Cfile ftype Cfile="C:\emacs\bin\emacsclient" -n "%1"
Is there a way to change the icon of a file this way also. Or is the best way to do this by editing the registry.
I want to make a script or C program to do this so I don't want a icon association program.
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Franky over 6 yearsWould you please take a look at this please? I'm going to set an icon on a file type using a script file.