How to change the icon of .bat file programmatically?

Question

I\'d like to know what\'s the way to actually set the icon of a .bat file to an arbitrary icon. How would I go about doing that programmatically, independently of t

Answer 1

The icon displayed by the Shell (Explorer) for batch files is determined by the registry key

HKCR\batfile\DefaultIcon

which, on my computer is

%SystemRoot%\System32\imageres.dll,-68

You can set this to any icon you like.

This will however change the icons of all batch files (unless they have the extension .cmd).