Re: Icons in taskbar OT

[Wolfgang Bechstein bechstein@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks for the time you invested in this, Patricia, but I can't concur
with some of the things you say.

"Patricia M. Godfrey"  wrote:

> 1. In all three opsyses, if you want a DOS app to have a
> distinctive icon on the desktop, on the titlebar when it's
> running, and in the taskbar when it's running, you have to run it
> as a child of cmd.exe. That is, it must be launched by a lnk that
> points to
> c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c d:\xy4\editor.exe
> (or c:\winnt\system32, etc., if in W2K)

Doesn't work here. The only choice of icon I get in the above situation
is again the C:\ prompt icon built into cmd.exe.

> 2. In W2K and XP, a shortcut that points directly to editor.exe
> (or any other DOS executable) can have a distinctive DESKTOP icon
> assigned it with the Change Icon module on the pif properties
> page. But the titlebar and taskbar will still display the generic
> command prompt (c:\) icon when the app is running.

Yes, that describes the situation correctly, I believe.

> 3. In Vista, ...

No Vista in this household, other than the views out back.

Wolfgang Bechstein
bechstein@xxxxxxxx