Embedding icon in .exe with py2exe, visible in Vista?

Question

I\'ve been trying to embed an icon (.ico) into my \"compyled\" .exe with py2exe.

Py2Exe does have a way to embed an icon:

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Answer 1

Vista uses icons of high resolution 256x256 pixels images, they are stored using PNG-based compression. The problem is if you simply make the icon and save it in standard XP ICO format, the resulting file will be 400Kb on disk. The solution is to compress the images. The compression scheme used is PNG (Portable Network Graphic) because it has a good lossless ratio and supports alpha channel.

And use

png2ico myicon.ico logo16x16.png logo32x32.png logo255x255.png

It creates an ICO file from 1 or more PNG's and handles multiple sizes etc. And I guess XP would have no problem with that.