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[Nash]

Hello,

The Win2k and XP Add Remove programs dialog box has an icon next to the installed product.

Where do I set this icon within the InstallShield IDE? Different users have different icons when installing my software which is very strange.

Thanks for your help in advance.
Cheers,
Nash

[Taco Bell]

Wow, surprised no one answer your question already.

In any case, I also found it to be seemingly random until you have your InstallScript create a string value in the registry which refers to an icon/executable.

That registry location being HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\<YourInstallGUID> and the String value being DisplayIcon whose contents are the fully qualified path to the icon/executable of your choosing.

[Blake Miller Wonder]

I wrote a brief article, which is posted to this website, that describes many of the entries in the Add/Remove registry for Windows 2000.  The truth was already out there.

[Xitch13]

Is that the only place to find that icon?  The reason I ask is that I thought that's where it would be as well.  Then when I went to check on it yesterday, I couldn't find anything about an icon on the registry entries I looked at, yet almost all of the installed programs have their own unique icon.  After your answer today I went back and check all 51 entries under Uninstall - only 2 had that registry key!   I don't doubt that TB's suggestion does work (it obviously works for 2 of my 51 programs), but there has to be another way the other programs are displaying an icon as well.

[Taco Bell]

BMW: Yes, I'm aware of your ARP article.  It could use an update though, but yes it does answer this question.  There are also several other posts asking this same question which a search would have easily revealed.

I was just surprised no one had responded to at least point to that article given the post had been up for 6 hours at that point.

Xitch13: Yes, my suggestion certainly does work, but I can say what those other entries are doing.  This is the only method that I am aware of.

If some those entries are Microsoft created ones well they of course know all the tricks.  However, the Windows Installer itself may even have some built-in functions to make this process more seamless thereby explaining some of the other entries.  I can't honestly say though since I don't want to touch MSI with a ten foot pole.

[Xitch13]

Hey BMW,

I looked for your article, but was unable to find it.  Could you provide a link, or provide a road map for the sometime clueless ones amogst us (me being one of them)  

Thnx

[Taco Bell]

It's under InstallScript Samples, so go to Extensions for InstallShield Pro: Operating System and scroll way down to "Extended Information in Add/Remove Program Control Panel".

However, it has the same DisplayIcon information that I gave you earlier, as well some other values & how they work.

[Stefan Krueger]

Setups installed using Windows Installer technology don't use this entry - MSI has different ways to store the icon.
For non-MSI setups you should use the registry entry already mentioned.