🔒 can anyone help me change the icon to my exe

[wispy brook]

pls

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[open epoch]

Isn't that just a generic Python file? The file icon is controlled by the program that will execute it.

(You can change it locally; but nobody will see the changes you make.)

[wispy brook]

i want them to see the icon tho

i want this

[open epoch]

Right-- that's just a .py file right?

[wispy brook]

ye

[waxen kettle]

Ive done it before but I cant remember how

[open epoch]

You cannot do this for other people.

[wispy brook]

wha abt resource hacker

that or no

[open epoch]

No.

You cannot change this for other people.

[wispy brook]

oh

how i change it formyself then

[open epoch]

It's a bit convoluted and requires registry modification.

In HKCR there is a list of filetypes, e.g., .py.
This points to a PROGID as the (DEFAULT) value.
That PROGID can be referenced in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\{PROGID}\DefaultIcon
The value of DefaultIcon's (Default) key is a path to the icon file. You can modify this to the path of your file and restart Explorer.

[wispy brook]

that looks like alot of work im ngl

[open epoch]

Yup.

There's other ways to do it, but not for .py files.

[wispy brook]

py -m PyInstaller --onefile --noconsole --icon=youricon.ico kb.py

chatgpt said this

[open epoch]

If you want to package it as an executable instead, sure.

You have a .py file.

It may or may not be compatible as a PyInstaller executable however.

[wispy brook]

hm

i try'

[open epoch]

What's your program do? I might be able to tell you if it'll work.

[wispy brook]

like pycharm?

[open epoch]

Nah, what does kb.py do?

[wispy brook]

it a gui

like tg macro kinda

[open epoch]

GUI's tend to have some issues with PyInstaller.

It has to do with asset bundling, which transparently, I don't know enough about to assist you with.

[wispy brook]

ohh

I js give up

no one gnna see it so its fine

[open epoch]

Could always just open source it. If it's useful, people can download and run it that way. If you include good instructions, people tend to figure it out.

[wispy brook]

okay ill think abt it

ty

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