Well in the first link all you need to do is add this code:
Public Sub SetDefaultIcon(ByVal FileType As String, ByVal Icon As String)
Dim rk As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey = ClassesRoot
Dim rk1 As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey = ClassesRoot
Dim ext As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey = rk.OpenSubKey(FileType)
Dim regtype As String = ext.GetValue(String.Empty)
ext = rk1.OpenSubKey(regtype, True).OpenSubKey("DefaultIcon", True)
ext.SetValue(String.Empty, Icon)
MessageBox.Show(ext.ToString)
End Sub Private Sub btnChangeIcon_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnChangeIcon.Click
SetDefaultIcon(<File type as string here>, <Location of icon file here>)
End SubYou have yet to realize that there's two file types going on here, the first one is never .ico it's the type (file extension) you want your icon to be displayed on. The second one is the icon file's full path....................... but you need .ICO to change the file ICON ....
anyway, if i put there .ico, then, HOW did this code will change the icon from that FILE ?
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This is semantics at this point, but check out your post #3 to stated that you wanted to change the associated icon for a file (answering JMC's windows associated icon) you never mentioned tampering with binary files, which is the exact opposite in your post #3 reply. Until now I thought you were wanting the windows associated icon to be changed, which is easy. Changing a binary's icon is much more difficult, which wasn't mentioned until now in post #12
