[wix-users] Customize Windows Installer Icon (Computer Icon with CD image)

[Russell Haley]

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 8:55 AM, Ven H via wix-users
<wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
> Thanks Edwin. Fine. But, please let me know about customizing that icon
> <https://i.stack.imgur.com/hXsFC.png> in status bar during installation and
> also at the top left corner in dialogs. Is that possible, at least?

You need to wrap your msi in an exe. A bootstrapper is the most
generic way to do this. If you didn't want to use a bootstrapper you
could create a .Net app and include or embed the msi.

> Regards,
> Venkatesh
>
> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 10:19 PM, Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think what has been said previously is that this icon is associated at
>> the OS level to an extension (.msi) and as a consequence you *cannot*
>> change it just for your MSI. Likewise, you'd have to change it at the OS
>> level *before* you copied/installed your MSI to the system because if your
>> MSI changed the association between the extension and the icon, then you
>> wouldn't see the results until *after* your MSI had already installed...
>> And then what's the point? Smells like a bad requirement...
>>
>> --
>> Edwin G. Castro
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 3:16 AM, Ven H via wix-users <
>> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks a lot, Rob. This Icon
>>> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27208636/appropriate-
>>> icon-for-windows-8-installer>
>>> is
>>> shown in so many places like on the installer file, on the top left corner
>>> of all the dialogs, in the status bar during installation and so on. So,
>>> we
>>> cannot change in any of these places? I understand that we can change the
>>> icon shown in the ARP section of Control Panel.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Venkatesh
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 11:21 PM, Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hmm, I thought it would be pretty clear that changing it would be
>>> hacking
>>> > Windows. You shouldn’t do that.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > You can do this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
>>> us/library/windows/desktop/
>>> > aa367593(v=vs.85).aspx
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > After that, I’m not writing your installer for you.
>>> >
>>> > _____________________________________________________________
>>> >
>>> > Short replies here. Complete answers over there:
>>> http://www.firegiant.com/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > *From:* Ven H [mailto:venh.123 at gmail.com]
>>> > *Sent:* Thursday, February 1, 2018 9:47 AM
>>> > *To:* Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>
>>> > *Cc:* WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
>>> > *Subject:* Re: [wix-users] Customize Windows Installer Icon (Computer
>>> > Icon with CD image)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks a lot, Rob. I am not sure how to change this. Also, in that case,
>>> > can't I package this icon as part of my installer? Can you please
>>> provide
>>> > some more info?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Venkatesh
>>> >
>>>
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