Missing Option

Unfortunately, due to changes in the Windows operating system, changing exe files could cause problems and that option was removed.

You may want to check this out :    http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/filetypesman.html

I have used it on occasion with great success.          -- Ace --

IIRC you can make a shortcut to the .exe then the customize/change icon option should be there on the proprieties tab to the shortcut.

Thank you for your respectful reply. At first I thought it was something to do with copyright or admin/permissions.

I think it would be nice if Stardock updated the program with a checkbox Option  in settings - for advanced users that would be fine with the low risk. Removing the option completely means ip5 has that extra fun option to offer. I should not have updated to ip10 So I was wondering, with my activation key, could I revert back to ip5, or instead hope for that advanced option update??

Thanks Ace, I'll check that out.

I am not sure this will work but that option is being implemented by the "shellext.dll",you may put it onto IP10 folder,see how that goes......

Hell Yeah I'll try that. if not, I may have another way of manually doing it with my 'IconFX' program, anyway, thanks for the suggestion

To Gaspershooters. That suggestion did not work. but I am happy to report that I was able to do it with my 'IconFX' program

Did you register the shellext.dll in your system?? 

To Gaspershooters.

The  shellext.dll and shellext64.dll is already in my IP10 folder, but not sure if there is anything else I can do with it.

I am content that I can manually change icons for exe files with my IconFX program. I am going to leave it at that. Bye the way, since I have changed some icons for certain exe programs I have had no problems at all, my system is very stable.