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

[Edwin Castro]

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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