Stranger in a strange land

Making windows on a mac

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Hi,

I'm building a CD for a client who wants to to use it on PC only machines and I would like to create a couple of custom icons - specifically for the CD itself and the start-file within. I presume I can only do this on a PC and while I do have a copy of Virtual PC I'm not sure what program I should use create the icons (I have the artwork as separate files). Any advice people?

Thanks

TIm
wincustomize
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Look here for some hints: http://www.phdcc.com/shellrun/autorun.htm

Right at the top it mentions putting icon=xyxyxy.ico in your autorun.inf
Then later it says more....
# You can provide an icon for the CD drive in My Computer by adding a line that set the icon command to an .ICO file.

# You can set a text label for the drive using the label command.
For example:

[autorun]
open=ShellRun.exe report.mpg Showing video now...
icon=snazzie.ico
label=Snazzy Report



You'll need a program that can make *.ico's to make the icon. IconDeveloper by Stardock can quickly convert almost any image to *.ico. And there are some widgets/desklets out there that do it as well. But many image editing programs don't, so you may have to look a bit!

hth, rr