I want to change the icon of the internet explorer exe, and that file only.
But how do I do it?
when I right-click it, it comes up with internet options, and there's no way to change it through the "customize desktop" feature in the start menu

you would need to hack the iexplorer.exe using ResHack to acomplish that

If you mean the icon that appears on the desktop, try changing the value in


usually it's "shdoclc.dll,-190" - change (with regedit) to whatever you want.

It may not work, especially if not on a fresh install (some programs - antivirus, office etc - may interfere).

GL

Thanks
Which WINDOWS folder is the internet explorer exe in?

Of course, in "Program Files\Internet Explorer" - but that "iexplore.exe" does not do much by itself. It just calls a bunch of dlls located in windows\system32 which do all the stuff. Micro$oft worked hard to tie up Internet Explorer into Windows a long time ago, when Netscape [the original one] was the most successful browser and was sold for $$$, and IE sunk it down because it came with the OS. Micro$oft tied it up because: 1. tried to justify the bundling in face of anti-monopoly lawsuits; 2. gained "speed" advantage over the others since the browser was loaded together with the OS on startup.

For your needs, if you want to change the icon of iexplore.exe, I think there should be no problem (if Windows File Protection lets you).

GL

ah, thanks
but I can't hack the dll files...
see my topic