{"id":14642,"date":"2021-12-15T12:26:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T12:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=14642"},"modified":"2021-12-15T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T12:27:44","slug":"how-to-change-icons-of-games","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-7\/how-to-change-icons-of-games\/18696.html","title":{"rendered":"How To Change Icons Of Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I installed a game from way back in the days of Windows 95. It has an<br \/>\nicon in the .exe, but the icon does not show up in Explorer. However, it<br \/>\nDOES show up in the Properties box for the .exe. A shortcut to the .exe<br \/>\nin the Games menu also does NOT show the icon. I&#8217;m guessing that<br \/>\nthat may be because the icon doesn&#8217;t meet Windows 7 requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Right-clicking a shortcut on the left side of the Start Menu brings up<br \/>\na menu with &#8220;Properties&#8221; at the bottom. Clicking that brings up the<br \/>\nproperties box. On the &#8220;Shortcut&#8221; tab is a &#8220;Change Icon&#8221; button.<\/p>\n<p>Right-clicking shortcuts to games in the &#8220;Games&#8221; menu on the right<br \/>\nside of the Start Menu brings up a different menu, which does NOT<br \/>\ninclude &#8220;Properties&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>How can I change the icon of a game, as I can for other shortcuts?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Jeff, in Minneapolis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":24},"question-category":[42],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-14642","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-7"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/14642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=14642"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=14642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}